Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the machinery destroyed and the value of the stock of pine boards, the loss was estimated at about $100,000. When the blaze was under control, a Salvation Army truck distributed coffee and sandwiches to the firemen...
Walter Hampden. This actor, whose success with Hamlet and Macbeth struck the spark which burst into a blaze of Shakespeare last Winter, will risk the dangerous experiment of a New York repertory season. His plans already include The Black Flag, a pirate play by A. E. Thomas; six of Shakespeare's, including Othello; The Ring, a play based on Browning's The Ring and the Book. Carroll McComas will be his leading lady, with Pedro de Cordoba playing second to Mr. Hampden...
Fire brigades from the American and Italian Legations were refused admittance to the sacred precincts. The Chinese bucket brigades were inefficient, and several millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed before an Italian hose, manned by Chinese, was used to extinguish the blaze...
...Rivals. Sheridan's star ascends once again in all its blaze of eighteenth century wit and laughter. If any cast can do The Rivals justice, the Equity Players do it?almost. Mary Shaw as Mrs. Malaprop plucks her juicy verbiage with consummate taste. James T. Powers as David corners the greatest single contribution of laughter and applause?enough to make a dozen Broadway successes. But what one actor has a chance to shine pre-eminently in such a congeries of stars: Maclyn Arbuckle, McKay Morris, Francis Wilson, J. M. Kerrigan, John Craig, Violet Heming, Eva Le Galliene, Vivian Tobin...
Night flying is also being prepared for between London and Paris. The trail from the London Terminus at Croydon to Lympe, where the airplanes set out across the narrow English Channel, is already a fair blaze of light. It has been named "the Regent Street of the Continental Airways." The Londoner will avoid his early closing hours by flying to Paris, doing a heavy round of Montmartre and still return early enough to rest up before his office in the morning...