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...songs, with the probable exception of "Toodle-oo", is as distinctive or quite as catchy as "Bambalina" or "Wildflower", every single song is upleasing, and as we have said, appropriate to the scene in which it comes. The special music, such as "The Rumble of the Subway" and "The Flannel Petticoat Girl", is picturesque and effective...
...scene in which about a dozen of the chorus gambol in the costumes of a generation or so age, (we aren't quite suro how many generations), and some of the "boys" pose in an old-time daguerreotype was second to none we have ever seen. That tune, "The Flannel Petticoat Girl" emphasized the absurdity of the disguises somehow, with the most wonderfully rollicking rhythm, while those caricatures paraded back and forth, encore after encore...
...consumption of magazines, like the consumption of flannel underwear and hot tamales, is regional in its distribution. Professor Ward G. Reeder of Ohio State University examined the question, published his results. He based his calculations on the circulation of " ten magazines having the largest circulation."- The startling point of the survey is that, although most magazines are published in the East, most magazines are read in the West. The calculations show the percentage of the entire population which is supposed to be the magazine-reading public. District of Columbia 3.7 California 25.8 Oregon 24.9 Washington 24.1 Nevada 21.25 Wyoming...
Next morning the party arrived at Hutchinson, Kans., and drove out six miles to the farm of Chester O'Neal. There, with Senator Arthur Capper (leader of the farm bloc), William Allen White and Governor Davis standing by, the President in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, blue coat and straw hat, shocked sheaves of wheat after the approved methods of Kansas and Ohio...
...William Bell, of the British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather, unshrinkable flannel, a noiseless airplane, a motor of one pound weight per horsepower, methods of reducing friction, practical ways of utilizing the tides...