Word: actes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that by the time she comes out for her third encore, the house is hers, the song about her boy friend's "shushpenders," and her dance "Subway Shuffle," completely captivating the audience. As for Miss Foster, we are forced to admit that her playlet is rather crude, but her acting, plus her dark hair and bright eyes--well it was a good act...
...Amid prodigious applause the Baronet resumed his seat. He had done it again. As the charity auction began he bid in for 150 guineas ($763) a letter written by Oliver Cromwell to the Admiralty. Then the original manuscript of his own one-act play The Twelve Pound Look was offered, Barrie watched in silent complacence while bid capped bid until Manhattan Bookman Gabriel Wells took it for 2.300 guineas...
...number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting Co., nation-wide radio chain. Possibly despairing in their endeavor to convince the Lucky Strike makers of the evils of their course, the sugar & calorie forces turned their...
Great pains are being taken to reproduce accurately the setting of the play which depicts motion picture life in Hollywood. The scene of the third act is the Montmartre Cafe in Hollywood. Plans and pictures of the interior of this cafe have been obtained and are in the hands of the producers who hope to carry them out in detail. Models and floor plans of the set of the first act have been completed by T. B. Quigley '29 and J. W. Bethel...
...confinement. A great physician told me, recently, that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage. The present rate of maternity mortality and the amount of sickness among mothers point to the re-organization of these provisions. Proposals therefore are under consideration for making available, for insured women and the uninsured wives of insured husbands, proper medical...