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Meanwhile, the project of planting a $75,000,000 belt of trees as a means of land reclamation was last week running into considerable ridicule. Near broiling Manhattan, Kans. a farmer drawled to an out-of-town newshawk: "Have you ever been to those small western Kansas county seat towns? If you have you may have noticed the trees about the public buildings. They have been trying for 20 years to raise trees in prepared soil and right now they have not got them much more than ten feet high...
...Boston visit is the Met's big out-of-town venture this season. After eight performances there, it goes to Baltimore for three, then to Rochester to put on Merry Mount for the benefit of Composer Howard Hanson's townsfolk who could not get to the Manhattan première (TIME...
...breaks City Newsmen are usually the first to spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers in some 75,000 words a day. Thus, when the Times reports that a woman's body was fished out of the East River, or that an out-of-town buyer was killed in a taxi smash, or that three subway beggars got 30 days, it means in most cases that City News supplied the facts to the Times...
...suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre in mid-June, usually played to out-of-town visitors until the following spring. Ziegfeld called the 1927 edition his last, spent $300,000 to mount it. It ran for 60 weeks. In 1931 he put on his positively last Follies at his own Ziegfeld Theatre. In July 1932 the old grandee died in Hollywood. Last summer Broadway...
...lucky in these days to net 15% of gross for division among half a dozen or more partners. A tax of 5% of gross would take one-third of its profits. Worse off would be larger houses which do a large "wire" business (execute orders transmitted by out-of-town members, receiving only one-half of the normal commission for their services). Worse off too would be oddlot houses, who specialize in furnishing lots of less than 100 shares for small purchasers, do roughly one-third of the business transacted on the Exchange. Wire houses and oddlot brokers are able...