Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...
...Society decided nothing. ¶ A headliner on the subject of newspaper chains was suave and eloquent General Manager (Colonel) Frank Knox of the Hearst papers, largest U. S. chain. Speaking on the question, "Is the chain a menace to American journalism?" he protested: "No, quite the contrary." Said he: "Group newspapers have been gradually brought about by the demand for more, better and more varied newspaper content, a more complete coverage of the news and quicker distribution. . . . They have been in existence many years, and I do not believe the newspapers of the country, chained or unchained, ever had better...
Hobgoblins minced and Giants lumbered inside a very old Philadelphia building last week. The building, a small brick one, stands on Independence Square, close to Independence Hall. A label calls it the Hall of the American Philosophical Society. A large group of learned men, philosophers in the old sense of searchers after truth in any of the sciences, including natural history, heard the tread of the Giants and Hobgoblins...
These fantastics were not the only things presented last week to the American Philosophical Society, oldest (202 years) learned group...
...Herbert Ames, former Treasurer of the League of Nations will address a group of foreign and American students from colleges of the Greater Boston when they gather to organize a students' Permanent international Assembly modeled after the League of Nations Assembly, at the Faculty Room of the Harvard Union at 3 o'clock this afternoon...