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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of "The Wisdom Box," George C. MacKinnon's colyum in the Boston Daily Record, learned last month of a strange & wonderful white rat, owned and disowned by Philip Baldwin of Medford, Mass., radio control man for National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WEEI. Radioman Baldwin, reported Colyumist MacKinnon, bought two white rats, one of which soon disappeared from its box in the Baldwin garage. It had been missing ten days when Mr. Baldwin suddenly beheld it perched impudently on a brake drum of his automobile. He grabbed, missed. The rat darted out of sight into the car's internals...
...where the tracks of Chang's Peking-Mukden line pass under a bridge of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway. Workmen were seen working on the under side of that bridge during the night. The only place where a lookout could have hidden was inside a Japanese sentry box. At the very instant when Chang's private train passed under the bridge an electrically wired bomb dropped down on his private car, blew the Old Tiger out of all consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability...
...races of thoroughbred cockroaches. Bookmakers cover bets of thousands of francs on each roach race. Racing roaches run in narrow tracks covered with glass. Each roach is numbered with white ink. At the starting line they are restrained by transparent covers. At the finish line is a large black box, invitingly open. At the starting signal a strong light is switched on behind the roaches, their covers removed. Mortally hating bright lights, the roaches run for the darkness of the boxes at the other end of the tracks. Last week's bitterest rival cockroaches were Mick the Miller, named...
Chamberlain Brown's Scrap Book- Producer Brown hired 67 performers, distributed them among 21 vaudeville acts loosely held together by conversations between stage and a lower box, and had six left over for a claque. Producer Brown called the result "super-vaudeville." Actors' Equity Association called it a revue, ordered the 33 Equity members to quit, threatened to oust them when they refused. Last week none had given notice, none had been dropped from Equity, Producer Brown was still filling two houses a day, including Sunday, at prices from...
...become a seasoned and matured organization of the highest artistic excellence," a resolution prepared by Newton Diehl Baker provided that the Orchestra Company should be "free to investigate and experiment," to insure the Orchestra's "highest and largest future developments,"-i. e., which will make biggest box office noise. Founder Sokoloff may be retained on some new basis...