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Rosenbaum Grain Corp. has one of the largest storage capacities (18,000,000 bu.) of any grain house in the U. S. On busy days fast-talking Manny Rosenbaum. a cigaret hanging on his nether lip, keeps the grain pit lively with his orders. On dull days the pit brokers sometimes amuse themselves at his expense by parodying the German melody "O Tannenbaum" with loud choruses of "O Rosenbaum, O Rosenbaum...
...anyone notice the cigaret manufacturers rushing the NRA in order to get a code? . . . The total amount paid to producers in the nine principal tobacco States didn't equal the net profits of the big four cigaret manufacturers...
...would put in the entire second half of April hobnobbing in hotel lobbies; perching on gilt chairs in improvised conference halls; rising to perfunctory votes of thanks; hoisting highballs in smoke-filled rooms; puffing after-dinner cigars while the tri-colored dessert melts, the ice-water turns tepid, the cigaret butts float in the coffee saucers, and the speaker of the evening warms to his subject of "Freedom of the Press." For the last half of April traditionally is the season when men of the Press come together to talk about their business...
...betraying its sponsors for all ads now look alike. . . . The boy and girl in their bathing suits being too ecstatic about a case of beer are the same boy and girl on the next page swearing they couldn't live without one of the four cigaret brands that claim to be better than each other...
Last week's burlesque, staged on the eve of the Company's departure for Boston, showed various ways opera might be enlivened and perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...