Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shubert Company is showing great interest in the Club's present pro- duction, and it is possible that it may produce the play in New York professionally. The firm has done much help the Dramatic Club present the piece, having gotten it the German edition for translation by Martin Henry, instructor in German. The Club has a policy of presenting only those plays which have never been shown in the country, and many have been later produced on Broadway...
...aside a room for it back of his Manhattan paint store, but the Macbeth Gallery was indisputably the first to sell nothing but U. S. art. William Macbeth, a quiet little Irishman with a soft brown beard, arrived in the U. S. in 1871 and entered the art firm of Frederick Keppel &; Co. In 1892 he left to start his own gallery of U. S. art. It was a lean time for U. S. painters. Fifteen years earlier the magnificos of the Reconstruction Era used to pay $10,000 to $25,000 apiece for paintings of the Hudson River School...
...pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor games of which Mr. Parker person ally invented more than...
Thus, in the home town, the Insull achievement stood firm as billions of bulbs twinkled and millions of suppers were cooked. Squarely Samuel Insull faced his crisis late in life and at a time when he was preparing to take a large part in Chicago's Exposition celebrating 50 years of electric light. "My greatest ambition in life is to hand down my name as clean as I received it," he said. "It's just that. It isn't a question of money or anything else...
...Tiffany Favrile Glass," heavy and iridescent. This glass was the invention of Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the late Charles Lewis Tiffany who founded Manhattan's famed Tiffany & Co., jewelers, silversmiths & stationers. Although Glassman Tiffany is a vice president, assistant treasurer and director of the jewel firm, painting and glasswork have been his chief interests...