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...Biggest exhibitor at the Chicago Mart is also the titular head of U. S. furniture companies. Kroehler Manufacturing Co. of Naperville, Ill. claims the distinction of being the world's largest maker of upholstered furniture. Grey-haired, pock-marked Peter who always attends every show in person, was a $27-a-month bookkeeper when he started to work with a lounge company in Naperville. He bought the lounge company, built up a furniture corporation which in 1929 did $20,000,000 worth of business. His customers today include such heavy buyers as Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward...
...from the outer group. The images were composite photographs of billions of atoms resolved into single pictures by photographing a revolving plate the shape of which was determined by x-ray diffraction. Though indirect, complex and laborious, the method is quite as legitimate as ordinary photography, according to the exhibitor, and the effective magnification is 200,000,000-to-1. This first visual confirmation of electron distribution theory was provided and explained by the University of Chicago's Dr. Arthur Holly Compton...
...Lowell flayed block-booking of films as an exhibitor's excuse for showing objectionable pictures. Rebutting Dr. Lowell from New York, Secretary Carl Elias Milliken of the Hays organization observed: "Several years ago a cancellation clause was inserted in block-booking contracts permitting exhibitors to reject up to 10% of the films contracted for. . . . The managers used this clause to reject the so-called highbrow pictures...
...showmanship, the judge should first let the dogs be paraded jauntily around the ring. Then he should have them spaced at even intervals, proceed to his examination. A good judge will probably weed out hopeless specimens during the parade. But he should not forget that every exhibitor has paid an entry fee, thinks his dog has a chance to win. So let the judge at least pretend to give each dog a thorough examination...
...Fair's general manager, Maj. Lenox Riley Lohr, wanted to know what Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...