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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japanese Electricity. The largest corporation in Japan (capital, $20,000,000; gross annual earnings $55,000,000) was formed last week upon the merging of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. and the Tokyo Electric Power Co. One of the largest public utility companies in the world, it operates over 10,000,000 sq. mi. of Japanese territory, serves 10,000,000 (one-sixth) of Japan's population. The Guaranty Company of Manhattan helped accomplish the merger...
...mountainous country, supports a population of 39,989,385 souls. The support is poor. Half of the people work on farms. Most of the others work in factories. The factory workers, although quick, industrious and intelligent, are not robust. They can do only light work...
...proctor the downfall of a student who is not clear on the place of residence of the Hittites may be as inconsequential, and far funnier, than the death of the Jabberwock, to the motionless figures bent over the examination tables the matter appears in a more sinister light. Such joviality seems hideous in its forebodings...
...right wing of the accompanying photograph, will be built as a separate unit before the remainder of the structure. In this ell the swimming pool, the demensions of which will probably be 75 by 60 feet, will be on the second floor, with direct sunlight through the sky light...
Blossom Seeley as "Roxie" of Chicago is the "sex appeal" of the production. Vividly blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance...