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The cast is good. It brings to us once more Edna Hibbard, in our midst a few weeks ago as Dorothy in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". To be frank, Miss Hibbard is not so pleasing as she was in her other vehicle, but this is largely because she is left out...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE CROOKS AND A LADY OR GO STRAIGHT | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

Rarely does a Manhattan audience get to its feet once it has arrived and settled itself, but the better element* in a Manhattan audience did so last week when an oldster came out on the stage of Carnegie Hall and with just a little difficulty made his way across and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Rabinof | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Now you have gone too far. Editorial stunts (and I speak from an experience of more than 35 years in active newspaper work) can be carried beyond what is pleasing. TIME'S new department of FASHIONS is just such an overstep. You know why without my going any further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Mr. Maugham has written an entertaining comedy, which presents some rather unusual aspects of modern marriage. The play is interested at appropriate intervals with the sort of fashionable aphorism which all modern English comedies seem to require, and in addition there are a number of good old wise cracks, for...

Author: By P. H. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

Débuts. In Die Meistersinger, Crete Stiickgold from the Berlin Staatsoper was Eva, comely, pleasing. Richard Mayr (Vienna Staatsoper) was a dignified, experienced Pogner whose voice had seen better days. Dorothee Manski (Berlin Staatsoper) was the witch in Hansel und Gretel, a blathering old woman with small time to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Metropolitan | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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