Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty, resourceful Mme Andrée Viollis was last week the first journalist to enter Afghanistan's freshly captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion...
Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...
...remove these flies is the purpose of a socialite undertaking called the New York Theatre Assembly, which has now presented the first of a series of "amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." The curtain rises at 9 o'clock. The play, by Fannie Heaslip Lea, describes the love affairs of two men, two women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades...
...market is Rutger Bleeker, importer. To the Exchange Merchant Bleeker brings a knowledge of Eastern trade gained in 30 years of dealing in cocoa, jute, coffee, spices. In London the day the Exchange opened, he heard that 1,000,000 yards of burlap had changed hands during the first session at a price of about 6.10 cents per yard. Last year one Gladys Meryl Yule, 24, inherited a sum supposed to be about $100,000,000. She was forthwith publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal...
...plan. It was stated that Swedish Match Co. would buy the monopoly by offering the government a loan of 600,000,000 marks (about $144,000,000). Last week despite public opposition Ivar Kreuger made the match, a more clever and less offensive match than had been first suggested. Terms of the new monopoly provided for a continuation of independent operations, but stipulated that Russian products would be barred. The price of matches was increased from 25 pfennigs for ten boxes to 30 pfennigs, giving the independents larger profits, the government larger revenue from taxes. To Kreuger & Toll the terms...