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This investment, made a dozen years ago, cost Drug $10,000,000. Since then steady Boots dividends have gone to Drug. But Druggist Liggett, onetime patent medicine drummer, has never interfered much with Boots management, although he has encouraged it to sell picture frames, stationery, leather goods and other nonpharmaceutical lines. Boots management has remained an English management headed by John Campbell Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham...
...hotel's butcher called to collect what was due him, $100. The drummer's money being handy, the cashier paid with that. The butcher went on down the street, paid his rent, $100. The landlord owed his lawyer $100. The lawyer owed the doctor. The doctor owed the hotel $100. Before dark the same $100 bill was back in the hotel's safe. In came the drummer...
...Thanks," he said as the clerk handed over the money. To a big-city friend the drummer said, as they strolled out of the lobby: "I had that hick all hot & bothered, keeping this $100 bill for me. It's stage money!" and to impress other hicks, he used the bill to light a cigar...
...spectator of the old joke in which a Southern planter, returning home, is first informed that his dog Towser has died. By a slow process of revelation he subsequently learns that his stables, house and mother-in-law have been burned up, his wife run away with a drummer. Author Priestley's play presents the most complicated plot in town. A loves B who loves C who loves D, who has been found dead. Little by little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface...
...becomes increasingly evident, likes to insure in its theatre censors a fresh and unprejudiced approach to the task of keeping pure the morals of playgoers in the Athens of America. The retiring stage censor of the Hub, John M. Casey, received his training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found in the circumstance that...