Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next step was the logical one. It was consummated last February, but the general public knew about it only last week, when Weber & Heilbroner exultantly announced that it now owned its own source of supply, that clothing would hereafter proceed from cutting room to fitting room "in one unbroken flow...
Cartoonist Art Young writes about cartoons with illustrations from his own work. Says he: "If a public man is fat and his nose is long, good caricature in the opinion of some caricaturists is to magnify these characteristics very much?to pile Pelion on Ossa. To others the natural is almost funny enough...
...three years Ernestine Schumann-Heink has been exceedingly busy bidding farewell to her public-concert, operatic, radio. Last spring, sailing for Europe, she announced herself as definitely "through." Teaching was to be her sole occupation. Last week she returned from Europe, limping down the gangplank on a sprained ankle, grinning her great grin. Yes, she told reporters, she was going West. Sound cinemas provided another way for great singers to sing. Three companies had made her offers...
...Hatfield's offer of the University Theatre for the production of the "Strange Interlude" should win him the sympathy of a large majority of his hitherto moving-picture-going public. Better plays have been written than Eugene O'Neil's Pulitzer Prize Play, but it is hardly surprising that such unreasonable and bigoted pseudo-puritanism on the part of Boston authorities should be met by widespread resentment, manifested not only by indignant letters and editorials in the press, but by such practical offers as Mr. Hat-field...
...become so tiresome to reproach Boston for its constant repression of creative work, that we are beginning to surrender in despair. For a long while we have tried to argue that Boston was not as bad as it seemed in the public press, but developments of recent months inevitably lead us to the hypothesis that not only is Boston as bad as painted, but unpleasantly worse...