Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College, Brookings, S. Dak., the President stopped off to make the dedicatory speech at the Lincoln Memorial Library, to lay the cornerstone at the Coolidge Sylvan Theatre, and to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Like many of his public utterances, his speech was packed with intensely local information which, though possessed by a few of his hearers, caused most of them to marvel that it should be part of a President's equipment. Said President Coolidge...
...prosperous cities? Chicago, for the most blatant ex- ample?have such frightful local governments? A Hottentot could give the answer; the electorates do not care...
...many towns where the entire population can crowd into the local auditorium in that time, the company will play but one night...
...most significant feature of the trip is that interest in the drama is great enough in these places to guarantee expenses. The guarantors are women's clubs, local drama societies, colleges, occasionally business men's societies. The theatres will be high-schooled auditoriums, town halls, converted cinema houses, local stages, community clubs...
...full force of this ending is brought home in a final chapter, entitled "Happiness," where the groceryman's wife, Mrs. Paddock, repents of having flirted with a local literary light and the grocer's daughter, Georgia Paddock, forgives Hero Jack Ellory for having belittled, by premature tactics, "the fully matured love of a man for his mate...