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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type indicated, were sold to Europe in 1913 to the total of some $72,000,000 worth. Last year the value was $293,000,000--an increase in sixteen years of more than 300 per cent. Even though a part (perhaps 60 per cent) is chargeable to price increases, there is obviously a greater increased volume in this traffic; and it shows nosign whatsoever of abatement. The fact is that the currents of commerce are largely diverted, speeded up or retarded, by forces that have very little to do with international political emotions...
...Wilbur next week, displacing Katherine Cornell's vehicle. "The Age of Innocence". A gripping war play that was first written for production by an amateur mens' club in London and hence contains no female parts, it is even more effective than the success of some years ago, "What Price Glory". In common with most of the more recent literature about the war, it makes no use of melodramatic narrative, but instead paints a series of unforgettable characters and scenes inside a front-line dugout...
According to Captain Samuel Dunlap of the Brighton Station, it is almost impossible to convict a man on the charge of speculating, that is, selling a ticket at a price above fifty cents over face value, as it is very difficult to prove the amount of a transaction. For this reason the city ordinance, violation of which involves a maximum fine of $20, is resorted...
...standpoint of a government that is not too proud to monopolize, business done with Herr Kreuger is good business. The government gets large sums of needed cash and then repays the loan by a tax on matches. As for the match-users, they get excellent matches and the price is fixed by an agreement between Herr Kreuger and a government committee. In 1927 Herr Kreuger enabled Premier Raymond Poincare of France to complete the stabilization of the franc with a $75,000,000 loan in return for a semimonopoly in French matches. Although Herr Kreuger is always willing to make...
...SCENE-every door in a tenement opens on drama (Pulitzer Prizewinner). JOURNEY'S END-those well-bred Englishmen are still at war. IT'S A WISE CHILD - funny complications caused by a fake pregnancy. CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE-splendid drama (Tchekov, Anet, the Quinteros), splendidly acted at top price of $1.50. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE - ludicrous scherzo about a speakeasy and an innocent but willing beauty. THE CRIMINAL CODE-the laws of God are not on the statutes. JUNE MOON-magnificent satire on songwriting by Ring W. Lardner & George S. Kaufman. Musical: WHOOPEE, FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET...