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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dividends. To stockholders of 450 corporations came extra dividends totaling $250,000,000. Notable were: General Motors Corp., $44,500,000; E. I. du Pont de Nemours, $13,452,000; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., $6,000,000; Standard Oil of California...
...De Soto Graham-Paige Stutz...
...such stuff are the women made that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
...absurd and The Red Robe, adapted from Stanley Weyman's novel, is no exception. Yet it made a good play 25 years ago, in which William Faversham starred, and now it makes a gay and gaudy minstrel show for Walter Woolf. In the story of Gil de Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland, an English actress, sings when...
...Cyrano de Bergerac's verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries. His rapier was rapid. But his nose was freakishly long, disfiguring. Therefore he felt frustrated in his love affair with Roxanne, and Edmond Rostand's famed heroic comedy turns into tragedy. Cyrano has made theatrical history in the versions of Constant Coquelin and Richard Mansfield. In the. U. S., of late years, Walter Hampden has honored both himself and the role. On Christmas night he revived Cyrano, scored again. Ingeborg Torrup was a new, petite, luscious Roxanne...