Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida. At Savannah, Ga. his train stopped for 15 minutes and deferential reporters sidled into his car. They asked the beaming old man whom they saw for a statement. He smiled and read to them a tract in his modulated voice: "A smile is the greatest thing in life. There is nothing like a smile to bring cheerfulness, and the world would be worth but little were there no smiles...
...Rockefeller, who assiduously guards the privacy of his family life, last week used the summer's experience to illustrate that corporations as well as individuals must have character training. He spoke at the sixth annual banquet of the Twenty-six Broadway Club, composed of employes and executives of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Chairman George H. Jones and President Walter Clark Teagle of the corporation spoke; Mrs. Rockefeller sat at the dinner table...
...smile, resting on a foundation of sincerity, is one of the most valuable things in the world. It cheers when nothing else would make an impression. It gives a thrill of which no human agency is capable. A smile has changed the whole course of a human life. A smile serves as a guidepost at a turning point for a man who is hesitating at the intersection of two paths. A smile is the sun that dissipates the clouds of despair. It is just the ray of light that many a soul needs to make life seem preferable to death...
They sat through what is certainly one of the most expensive preparations ever put up, a luxurious operetta about Africa. Dawn, high priestess of native religion, loves an heroic Englishman. Unhappily she is in the power of a gigantic local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed...
...Civic Repertory Theatre). In Denmark live contented cows. No one has been unhappy since Hamlet. Or so you feel at this playful Danish version of the proposition that life is illogical. The plot traces the transformations of a mad-ap schoolteacher into a story editor and of his wife from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher...