Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many attempts were made after the Willard-Johnson match at Havana to effect a lawful entry of the pictures of the fight. Finally, a camera was set up eight inches south of the boundary between New York and Canada. Eight inches north of the line a box was set up, and an original positive film of the fight pictures was run off through the box in front of an electric light. The camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained...
...MUSIC BOX REVUE?Irving Berlin's hardy annual continues to flourish. The long arms of Charlotte Greenwood and the clatter of Bobby Clark call for a consistent laugh...
...Princeton 1-gave "Mo" Berg, Tiger shortstop, difficult opportunities to which he rose so satisfactorily that Brooklyn National League scouts in the stands promptly offered him a Major League contract. Berg played his first game with Brooklyn last week, making one hit (a scratch, through the pitcher's box) and fielding perfectly...
...COPPER Box-J. S. Fletcher- Doran ($1.75). Caught in a snow-storm on the Scottish Border, a young artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
...Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside was the label-" Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonensis, faciebat anno 1723." Experts said that the "Strad" was genuine...