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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residue the Guildsmen painted new scenery on the back of the old and gave St. John Ervine's John Ferguson. This time their success was tumultuous. The play ran for 156 performances, then toured. Last fortnight the Guildsmen celebrated a prosperous tenth anniversary. In Manhattan was a subscription list of 32,000, the Guild's own handsome playhouse (to build it a $500,000 bond issue was offered and over-subscribed), and four other theatres which the Guild habitually leases. A gradual expansion policy, including tours through small towns and seasons in cities other than New York...
...spring and summer music-seekers, the following list tells where, when, what...
...cigaret buyers, however, find little difficulty in getting two packs for a quarter, one pack for 13?. At Atlantic & Pacific chain stores, indeed, a carton (ten packs) of 15? cigarets is sold at $1.14, and R. H. Macy & Co., famed price reducer, offers the carton at $1.09. Thus the "list price" of the largest selling cigarets has been cut a penny here, a penny there, and several pennies elsewhere...
Next to Harvard, M. I. T. seems to have been the favorite college of the fathers of this year's first year men. Twelve freshmen are immediately descended from graduates of that institution, while Pennsylvania comes next on the list with nine. The fathers of five freshmen graduated from Yale, and three first year men are the sons of Princeton graduates...
...finally a suitable and particularly sparkling jewel sets off the whole list when the agreement sums up, saying that these advertisements were published "when in truth and in fact the aforesaid captions and the representations and statements, as set forth in the aforesaid advertisements were in many instances not founded in truth and were otherwise misleading and confusing, and some of the aforeseaid representations as set forth in advertisements and advertising matter were beyond the probability of accomplishment...