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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STREET SCENE-every door in a tenement opens on drama (Pulitzer Prizewinner). JOURNEY'S END-those well-bred Englishmen are still at war. IT'S A WISE CHILD - funny complications caused by a fake pregnancy. CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE-splendid drama (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros), splendidly acted at top price of $1.50. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE - ludicrous scherzo about a speakeasy and an innocent but willing beauty. THE CRIMINAL CODE-the laws of God are not on the statutes. JUNE MOON-magnificent satire on songwriting by Ring W. Lardner & George S. Kaufman. Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...charming girl - a splendid girl - and I hear she is very capable, too." - Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...made a splendid trip to Washington. He was one of New Mexico's first two Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fall Trips | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Freshman Library, which houses books for the use of first-year men in the departments of History and English, in addition to a splendid circulating library, has been moved. The building was for several years on Bolyoke Street at South Street, but plans for the new House behind Gore Hall required that the ground on which the building stood be cleared for the erection of the new plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Books Undisturbed as Freshman Library Moves to Allow House Construction to Begin--Plant Trails Freshmen | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

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