Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing the Army to spend $150,000,000 over a period of five years to improve the air service. (Bill went to the Senate...
...authorizes* the expenditure of $150,000,000 over a period of five years. At the end of that period 2,200 first-class fighting planes are to have been provided, and 1,650 regular flying officers and 550 reserve officers are to be on active duty. There will also be 15,000 enlisted men in the service, 500 of whom are flying cadets...
...believed by shrewd financiers of the theatre that epigrams will not keep. These men are right, as usual, from a financial viewpoint. It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period. On the other hand, the production seems one of the very few this season that the true lover of the theatre cannot afford to miss...
Kitty's Kisses is an unimportant musical comedy with a shattering succession of excellent dance numbers. It has been made over from an old farce which once amused for an inconsiderable period as Little Miss Brown. About half of the original was eliminated to make room for song and dance about a girl who strayed into the wrong hotel bedroom. The music and the foolishness are mostly routine. Dorothy Dilley and a vaudeville team called Wayne and Warren are the most capable performers...
Major Beith bases his play on the human weakness which convinces a man or woman that one horse will travel a certain distance in a briefer period than several other horses. Two of his characters are habitues of the tracks; another is a stony old justice of the peace who believes betting sinful. The efforts of the young sportsmen to alter the old man's opinion, plus their efforts to marry young women of his household, compose the play's development. 0. P. Heggie is the leading player, though a relatively obscure actor named Walter Kingsford gives...