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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivar Kreuger's $350,000,000 Swedish Match Trust served formal notice upon Diamond that the agreement would not be extended. Yet the approach of the actual termination has made more vivid the question of who will soon be supplying the U. S. with strike-on-the-box matches.* Diamond has made a few, hints it may make more under favorable conditions. Herr Kreuger in his annual report spoke of planning to make, matches in the U. S. Yet no definite move has taken place...
...thousand tourists this summer thronged the Festspielhaus (1,000 from the U. S.), 35,500 tickets were sold, $250,000 came through the box-office wicket, greater takings than Bayreuth has known in many a year. Conservative estimates placed total money spent there by opera-lovers at half a million...
Seven hundred limber-limbed men and women walked past a box in the rococo ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last fortnight and put into it small bits of paper. When all had filed by the box was removed, opened and the bits of paper sorted. Presently Thomas M. Sheehy of Chicago rose and in a hushed silence read a list of names and a list of dances. Thus were announced four dances and one novelty (from a field of 60) which the Dancing Masters of America have officially elected to sponsor and will endeavor to popularize throughout the land...
Thick-legged and firmly fleshed over her solid muscles, ebulliently British in manner, conveying an impression of good nature by her obvious healthfulness and a smile far better dentifriced than most English girls', Betty Nuthall was the tournament's only box-office attraction. At the West Side Tennis Club she confounded people who had heard of her as a girl who combined tournament tennis with late dancing. She did not smoke or drink, went to bed nightly at 9:45, declared that she likes to make her own tennis dresses and that she had embroidered the Union Jack and Lion...
...greatest cause of the deficit's increase. That expense will not recur. And the new building has 21 floors of office space from which rentals are calculated to help defray the expenses of the big auditorium downstairs where, too, the increased number of seats means bigger takings at the box office. Last season 306,018 persons paid to see the curtain rise, compared to 272,006 in the old house the year before. Receipts totaled $1,230,224 as against $948,469 in 1928-29. Average price of tickets rose 53¢?from $3.49 to $4.02. "Unfortunately," mused President Insull...