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Interesting among ancient traditions of the sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest...
...Gold Coast 'Juniors' will render "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band." Following a novel feature. "The Pyorrhean Sorority," the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...
...special permission of the copyright owners the Gold Coast 'Juniors' are planning to play "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band". As the program draws to a close, the audience will be treated to a performance of the so-called "Pyorrhean Sorority," after which the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...
...death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...
...grandstand at the games, was a mingling of many worlds, the great business world and the somewhat different, sporting-society world, with a touch of court and politics. Andrew Mellon and Harold S. Vanderbilt, British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, the Stokes, Astors, Burdens, Hitchcocks and Long Islanders, with a rag tag of art and literature plus Betty Nuthall and Rudy Vallée-and at the root of it a fact: the U. S. polo team won the first match in the international series from England at Meadow Brook...