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...like the book. I like the music. I think it will be a great show" was the quiet, confident statement of Arthur Hurley, director of the Hasty Pudding's "Come Across". Having turned men into women for fourteen years as coach of the "Lamb's Gambols" in New York, he is not worried about the crucial part of the production up here. His trick is to show the players' femininity by costume and a few gestures with the hips and hands rather than by a fakey voice...
Featuring the music of Lee Shelley's fourteen piece orchestra, the Hotel Brunswick Casino announces a new policy of continuous entertainment from seven in the evening until one in the morning...
...brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted during the Institute's excavations...
...excavation, fourteen civilizations were found on top of each other in the space of one hundred feet. At the bottom is a Neolithic village, at the top an early Christian temple. From such remains, Professor Breasted and his followers have gained an intimate knowledge of ancient life, even of such matters as the level of prices over long periods of time and ancient court procedure...
...agreed. Mr. Levison made their subscription notes security for a $250,000 loan from the Crocker-Woolworth Bank. To policyholders he offered 50% in cash and 50% in stock of the new company. On every stockholder he levied a $300 assessment. Mr. Levison's plan worked. Fourteen months after the fire, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. had assets of $5,345,000, cash capital of $1,600,000 and a surplus over all liabilities. It was the only insurance company ever to survive the destruction of its home city...