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...subsequent performances Impresario Wronski has drilled choruses, directed orchestras, helped build scenery, scoffed at scoffers until now he can command a substantial backing from the citizens of Detroit. Last week he was so excited that he almost swallowed his cigar backstage. After Detroit he took The Dybbuk to Chicago, scheduled it for five performances this week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
...night last week the small ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania oozed cigar smoke at every crack. Cigar makers, wholesalers and dealers were gathered to ponder the plight of the U. S. cigar. As they all well knew, production had fallen from the all-time high of 8,304,000,000 cigars in 1920 to 4,344,700,000 in 1933. Even with the recent rise of the 5? cigar, production last year was only 4,763,900,000. The cigar men had gathered to hear Joseph Kolodny, onetime chairman of the NRA code authority for the wholesale tobacco...
...Many people ascribe the decline in cigar smoking to the accelerated pace of American life," meditated Administrator Kolodny in a fine blue haze. "Others declare it is partly due to the invasion of women smoking cigarets." But whatever the cause, said he, the Cigar Progress Board was out to restore the cigar's oldtime prestige. Cigar makers, who will save some $3,800,000 this year through invalidation of AAA processing taxes, will support the following CPB efforts...
...This week U. S. cigar stores will simultaneously put forth fresh placards, counter displays, handouts plugging cigars with such slogans as "The Friendly Gesture-Have a Cigar" and "A Good Cigar Makes Every Meal a Banquet." Other slogans, placards, pamphlets will appear every ten days...
...Every day 30,000 cigar salesmen will make it a point to buttonhole at least two people for a cigar salestalk, give each a cigar...