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...Jane Cowl opened a two week's engagement with her new version of Dumas' "Camille," Miss Cowl, of course, makes the play but there is an excellent supporting cast including Rolle Peters. Prices are $1.00 for best orchestra seats, the same as for "Goodbye Again," which was a genuine godsend to drama-staryed Bostonians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 8/8/1933 | See Source »

...district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken up, but is a godsend keeping me up on what goes on in the mother-land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...Where our ancestors dipped their pens in acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pens in Syrup | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...only an opportunity for Yerkes Observatory to earn a few score unexpected dollars, the eclipse is a godsend to New England. The New England Council, regional business builder, began to advertise the eclipse in magazines and newspapers last February. The Council got out a special eclipse folder. The New England Hotel Association distributed 100,000 copies of a special brochure on the phenomenon. North Conway and Provincetown, Mass.. Wolfeboro, Littleton and Whitefield. N. H. and Fryeburg, Me.?all communities in the path of the totality shadow?have had men & mail calling attention to their excellent locations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipse Day | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...butler named Cross, of Colney, Norwich, England, 73 years old and retired on a pension, who remarked: "Whatever I get will be a godsend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweeps | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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