Word: pembertons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ceiling Zero (by Frank Wead; Brock Pemberton, producer). The cycle of breezy institutional drama started by The Front Page has exploited the Salvation Army (Torch Song), the circus (Privilege Car), the side show (The Great Magoo), the hospital (Men in White) and even the penny arcade (Penny Arcade). But until Ceiling Zero came along, no playwright had felt qualified to dramatize the excitement and color surrounding the operations of a commercial airline. That job has fallen to Lieut. Commander Frank Wead, U. S. N. retired, leader of the Navy's 1923 Schneider Cup squadron, who turned to fiction...
...Coca-Cola, which has successfully weathered every change in public taste for 48 years, Repeal had no effect. Whereas the average soft drink begins to lose favor after five years, Coca-Cola has shown no sign of fading vogue since a patent medicine man named Pemberton first concocted it in 1886. Every management that takes control makes more money than its predecessors. The Candlers of Atlanta, who got the company in 1892, rose from humble druggists to become one of Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia...
...college professors including ten from Dartmouth, stated that they "believe, after consideration of the cases, that there is no reason why there should be any further delay in the only course which the facts justify," i.e., dismissal. The judge will charge the jury when court opens this morning in Pemberton Square. A decision is expected in short order...
...gathering will be addressed by Aaron Warner, International Labor Defense Attorney for the Karlsruhe prisoners. Their case has been appealed and is scheduled to be brought up for retrial this morning in the Suffolk Superior Court at Pemberton Square...
Personal Appearance (by Lawrence Riley: Brock Pemberton, producer). The fun which Broadway can get out of Hollywood is well illustrated by the fun which Actress Gladys George gets out of the role of a hard-bitten waitress who has become a famed cinemactress. Shapely Miss George has no trouble pretending to be the blonde and luscious Carole Arden...