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Mary Garden is one of those celebrities who has reached for a fat check for endorsing Lucky Strike cigarets. Last week in Dallas, Tex., where she went to appear with the Chicago Civic Opera Company, she felt the need of a cigaret during a press interview. Six newsgatherers offered six brands of cigarets, including Lucky Strikes. Singer Garden reached for a Camel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Speaker Longworth lit a cigaret in one corner of the stand. He had seen many such ceremonies. The Coolidge Cabinet, led by Frank Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chief | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...difficult to shoot a hole in the accuracy of the statement made by Mr. H. B. ('Yes, Mr. Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Still we congratulate the Dean of Former Executive Editors that his health is now so good that he now lights up a cigaret. The last time we remember seeing Mr. Swope smoke was in 1891, and he did it then, he said, only to get cigaret pictures of Delia Fox and Camille D'Arville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Theatre en able the penurious to see good plays, no claptrap. Of more importance in the specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften the cruelty of the character. She can wear with grace the smock-like robe pre scribed by Ibsen, Never without a cigaret, the Le Galliénne Hedda is bored but thinly vital as though blood of ice were quickening her movements, thoughts, words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Two Heddas | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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