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This production by Lennox Robinson, playwright and director of the Abbey Players, is now in its second week of rehearsal under the direction of Alistair Cooke. The final cast, including Radcliffe students, playing feminine roles, is: Chesterfield Wragsdale, Robert Gardner-Medwin S.A.; Vivienne Waters, Elizabeth Morison; Michael Love, Richard Sullivan '35; Molly O'Sullivan, Lois Hall; Mrs. Gordon A. Bock, Louise Graham; Mr. Gordon Beck, Arthur Szathmary '37; Carl Svenson, Paul Killian, Jr. '37; Udolphus, Whitney Cook '36; Benri, Charles Sedgewick '34; Edwin Salmon, John Cromwell...
...Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) swore a mighty oath that he would run 10? cigarets out of business if he had to make them himself. Last week patrons of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout the U. S. could read a big sign behind the cash register: LUCKY STRIKE-CHESTERFIELD-CAMEL-OLD GOLD...
...from 11? to 15? a package. Mr. Hill had not quite kept his promise-yet. He had cut the wholesale price of his Luckies from $6 per 1,000 (to which they were reduced from $6.85 last month) to $5.50 per 1,000. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) and P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold), who always act with Mr. Hill in price questions, followed suit. Dealers get a trade discount of 65? per 1,000. A price of 11? a package would give the dealers 1.3/10? profit. A. & P. was making only 3/10...
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...forward march of the Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five U. S. cigarets. And added to the troubles of Messrs...