Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supply. Now, though Author Diggers' widow receives a royalty on each, Chan's cases and his mottoes are invented for him by Fox scenarists. Almost anyone who is not otherwise engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their central character, Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...
...little-known fact about the holy mountain is that, besides housing many another Christian relic, its monasteries contain more pieces of the True Cross than any other single locality. The Cross has been calculated to have measured 178,000,000 cubic millimetres. Of 3,942,000 c. mm. extant, Mount Athos has pieces aggregating 878,360 c. mm., Rome...
...does contain Miss Le Gallienne which ordinarily would be justification per se for any play. But this time Miss Le Gallienne has made a bad mistake--much as she may fancy emulating Maude Adams and Sarah Beruhardt she is definitely not suited to this role. Weakly as Napoleon II might have been, he was nevertheless a male and this is something Miss Le Gallienne cannot achieve. Her work is good but she has set herself an impossible task...
...Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world; a card index of every major league player for the last 20 years, with a lifetime record of his performances ; every box score kept since 1876. In the summer its eight clerks make a permanent record of every play in every major...
...Current social and political trends, accentuated, if not directly provoked, by the economic depression, contain a menace for the great endowed institutions...