Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was when Germans dreamed of equaling Britain in sea power, but they learned to be less presumptuous at Versailles. Not long ago His Britannic Majesty's government made known that the U. S. is to-day the only nation which they will abide on a parity of naval strength (TIME, July 4, 1927, et seq.). Last week the North German Lloyd was challenging very modestly no more than a passenger speed record, yet even that was bold, and of all who went to watch the Bremen steam away none knew this better than STIMMING...
...greater proportion of the prisoners seem to have become accustomed to their lot. Most of them, especially those convicted of capital crimes, are carefree and gay. . . . Their treatment by the guards, mostly trusted prisoners, is humane. Corporal punishment has long since been abolished by the Governor of the island...
Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet. The rest of the comedy has been long hallowed in burlesque halls-the mad bellows and sobs of Harry Welsh as a shouting waiter; the kicks which short, tough Joe Phillips aptly places on female targets...
Showman Burnside has long since abandoned the Hippodrome to vaudeville, cinema, possible demolition (TIME, Feb 11). Lately he went to the seaboard's playground, Atlantic City, N. J., to institute a new Hippodrome show-house. Last week, in a $15,000,000 auditorium which seats 41,000, he presented Here and There, a pageant calculated to crowd what is reputedly the world's largest indoor stage...
Sometime ago Equity President Frank Gillmore declared that members signing non-Equity contracts after June 5 would be suspended. Many a player paid no attention, signed such a contract. Among them was Tully Marshall, long-faced character actor...