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Word: montreal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Morgan, star of the stage Show Boat, cast in the prolog of the picture to sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

With its main line running from Montreal to Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: World's Greatest Railroad | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...skinned, Earl D. Babst is the 59-year-old chairman of A. S. R. A., director of Great American Insurance Co., American Alliance Insurance Co., Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co., North Carolina Home Insurance Co., American National Fire Insurance Co., Great American Indemnity Co., Mt. Royal Insurance Co. of Montreal, The Chase National Bank. He has been eagerly active in affairs of Ohio's Kenyon College, and of the University of Michigan, which gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babst Demand | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Died. Clarence Mayo Hollingsworth, 56, of Steubenville, Ohio, vice president of Ohio Valley Clay Co.; after drinking disinfectant; in Montreal, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Papers published weekday mornings: Montreal Gazette (national display); Wilkes-Barre Record (local display); Los Angeles Times (classified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lineage | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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