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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Between us is an unused courtyard. Every night when the theatre is closed I take the poster boards down from in front of the theatre and store them in this courtyard. This Spanish type, he does the same thing with his posters. Very well, morning after morning I have found the French posters torn to shreds, the Spanish posters untouched...
Eight o'clock on the evening of Moving Day found 300,000 pilgrims gathered under the red-leaved maples of the sacred grove. A slender bamboo fence surrounded both old temple and new. Guards in medieval armor were stationed along the line with fire torches flaring against the evening sky. Another fence inside the old temple surrounded the mirror. Just outside this fence stood grizzled Yuko Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan, his Cabinet and members of the official party. Inside the fence in the temple stood Prince Kuni, Imperial Messenger, and the High Priest with his assistants. The High...
...psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she had gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production...
...reputable Dean Wu Chung-chieh of the department of Education at Minkuo University, China, last week announced that he had found recorded in Imperial Chinese chronicles dated 1777 the fact that one Li Ching-yung had been imperially honored for being 100 years old, that 1877 annals reported the same Li Ching-yung celebrating his sooth anniversary, that the same ancient is now 252 years old and is still living in Kai-shen, Szechwan Province...
...Oelrichs remembers the house at Newport where she spent her childhood, petticoated among socialites who were her family's friends. But while Miss Oelrichs was still young her mother divorced Mr. Oelrichs on grounds of cruelty. With alimony small, with income from other sources slight, young "Bubbles" Oelrichs found herself growing up to the problem of maintaining a position with little money...