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...game, is now revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Eden, the limberest sheep in the flock, wrote poetry that, unlike the poetry of most fictional characters, remains wisely unquoted in the book though it is accepted by a Manhattan publisher, in whose office Eden meets Alayne Archer. When he takes her back to Jalna, sweet old Adeline pats her "with a hand not so much caressing as appraising. She raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Sweet Adeline | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

There are three tremblings sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Doom | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...lecturers come directly from business firms of national reputation so that the students will have the advantage of teaching moulded by experience in actual business practice. H. N. Sweet, formerly with the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Brothers, and Montgomery, will be lecturing this year in accounting. Profesosr Sweet will also collaborate with Assistant Professor Hanson in a course on accounting. Mr. J. W. Horwitz, graduate of the Business School two years ago, who has spent a year with the B. F. Sturtevant Company, will be Assistant Professor of Business Statistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...sound piece of debunking called Chicago. She took her material for Revelry from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and for local color she went to Washington, moseyed about the lobby halls, chatted with the politicians, pried, snooped, took notes. To see Miss Watkins, whose beauty is fresh and sweet as the first blush of a primrose, one won- ders how she ever accumulated the authentic mass of profanity let loose in her play. Perhaps it is because she once wrote for a Chicago newspaper. Certainly it is not because she studied in Professor George P. Baker's class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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