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...Gentleman Jim") Corbett. The other champions,* of whom Tex Rickard made a list before he died, are as well off as ever. But perhaps million-dollar gates are now definitely in the past; perhaps to produce them it was necessary to have the assistance of the man with the cigar, the cane and the brown felt hat who lay last week in the middle of the enormous house he had built, enclosed in a $15,000 coffin...
...best known of which is Boston's Jordan Marsh-will form the nucleus of what Lew Hahn hopes to make the largest chain-store organization in the world. President Hahn of the new combination, forsees a billion dollar department chain with annual turnover exceeding F.W. Woolworth, United Cigar, or Atlantic & Pacific. Various units will continue to operate under present managements, President George W. Mitton of Jordan Marsh, for example, continuing at his post and also becoming Chairman of Hahn Department Stores...
Died. Theodore Roberts, 67, famed & beloved cigar-smoking cinemactor, onetime sea captain; of influenza; in Los Angeles...
...provincial cityites. Last week the Author-Producer, famed Walter Hasenclever, made the questionable move of taking his farce, Marriages Are Made in Heaven, away from the great German metropoli and out to Frankfurt-am-Main. There good and pious Frankfurters tried to wreck the piece. When God lit a cigar they hissed. When he picked up a saxophone and tooted they booed. But pandemonium did not break loose until God accepted a highball from Mary Magdalene, grew confidential and confessed: "You know I never did create the World. Queer how that idea started! I get tired sometimes-being blamed...
Cigarets are headed for a 100,000,000,000-year, if output of November and December is proportional to production during the first ten months of the year, which shows a 9.3% increase over corresponding period in 1927. Reason: women. Cigar production...