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...curtain raiser before the presentation of "Le Reve," a short feature, "Mont St. Michel," will be shown, and Pierre Brodin will give a short explanatory talk in French. Tickets will be on sale at Robinson Hall Annex on Monday, January 23. Performances will be given both days at 2.15, 4.15, 6.45, and 8.45 o'clock, and tickets will be void five minutes after the beginning of each performance...
Obviously this "doubling" is due almost entirely to the fall of the yen (foreign silk buyers who paid $150 per bale last July now pay $180) but the Japanese silk raiser reaps real benefit from the higher price in depreciated yen because he has not raised the yen-wages of his help. Thus far Japanese food prices have not risen much in yen because the Empire eats chiefly fish and rice produced by yen-paid Japanese. Net result of this situation has been to increase the competitive power of Japanese exporters in world markets, shoot the volume of Japanese exports...
...innovation this year a short, one-act play was presented as a curtain raiser. Written by a former president of the organization, it marks, according to the program, "the new policy of Le Cercle of giving French plays by American authors." While this may be an admirable policy, it should only be followed when there is a sufficiently worth-while play to make use of. This is clearly not true of "Serenade," which is a sentimental, unconvincing hodgepodge of seventeenth century intrigue and gallantry, having to do with a Cinq-Mars conspirator and two agents of Richelieu. The acting...
Commencing with the coming production, the Committee has decided to preface all future pictures with a short curtain-raiser. The first one to be shown will be a short Paramount film showing many of the historical places of Paris. The next picture will be presented on Thursday and Friday, December 15 and 16. The title of the movie has not yet been announced...
...biggest wheat raiser in Texas and one of the biggest in the U. S. called his creditors together two months ago and told them he was broke. Last week a rural hardware store to which he owed $600 petitioned him into receivership...