Word: importancies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sojourns each Spring in the sweltering heat of Atlanta-a fact which has given Atlantans a great opportunity for boasting. But the Metropolitan performances in the Southern city are by no means based upon ordinary box office reckonings. The short season is guaranteed financially by philanthropic Atlantans. The major import of the operatic taxation would appear to be the imposition of a fine upon these artistically minded citizens, not a levy on any profits; for the profits on the Southern season are of a sort to starve...
Foreign Office issued a communiqué, directing the police to protect Frenchmen at all costs, regardless of color, and threatening offensive tourists with expulsion if they tried to import Jim Crow tactics. France needs the loyalty of her colored colonies even more than she needs the cash of American tourists...
...inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze by Malvina Hoffman. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, herself a sculptor of first rank, preferred Edward McCartan's bronze Fountain. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the good Boston doctor-philosopher, decided on The Grand Pitch, by George C. Hallowell. Other paintings and sculptures in the first...
...defense of the Dutch East Indies. The Netherlands owns a colonial empire east of Singapore that includes the huge islands of Java, Sumatra and portions of Borneo. The area of the empire is 733,642 square miles, the population 50,000,000 and in 1921 its total import and export trade amounted to roughly 2,500,000,000 guilders...
...combine to give this play preliminary prestige before the curtain, rises. David Belasco, foremost American producer for many years, will sponsor it; St. John Ervine, Irish novelist and playwright, is the author; Mrs. Fiske, Mother Superior of the order of American actresses, will be the star. Mr. Belasco will import an English leading man. The play is a modern comedy...