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...Very Fine" Sirs: . . . Unquestionably a very fine and significant cartoon. At what price can you supply me with additional copies? JOHN GLASS Baltimore, Md. Printed on high-grade cardboard, $1. Framed (plain black frame), $2. - ED. "Shame!" Sirs: I am an admirer of the Rev. Dr. John R. Straton. Your cartoon of him as a roach has upset me as few things could. Shame! You may cancel my husband's subscription. PEARL ROSE JACKSON (Mrs. Horace Jackson) New York City TIME will cancel Subscriber Horace Jackson's subscription if and when Subscriber Horace Jackson so orders. - ED. Would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

About 1866, Inventor Alex. Lagerman invented the Universal matchmaking machine. This extraordinary device automatically cut the splints, dipped them in sulphur, affixed the tip, dried the matches, packed them in cardboard wrappers. It is still in use in Jonkoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tandsticksaktiebolaget | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Cardboard Lover. A public which votes a straight ticket because its father did, a public which sang "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which litters the countryside with picnic debris, has taken to Marion Davies. She appeared in Manhattan last week in something about a man who, wanting to make his sweetheart jealous, employed a cardboard lover. The cinema reverses the plot of Her Cardboard Lover (Jeanne Eagels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Divorced. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime all-American-footballer (Yale captain, 1909); by Jeanne Eagles, independent actress (Rain, Her Cardboard Lover) recently suspended by Equity (TIME, April 16); in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Prolific author of critical essays on poetry, Poet Untermeyer sticks to conventional rhythms in his own verse, but experiments with new rhymes: "fronds-bronze, millions-brilliance, color-duller, cardboard-hard, bored,"-studied inaccuracies which emphasize a lack of spontaneity. Indeed, this poet is at his best in historical comment, or in one satiric sonnet that is an anthology of Georgian poetry, complete with bucolic landscape where "immemorial lambs keep moonlit trysts with deathless nightingales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Verse | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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