Word: roisters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation, The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax of the satire comes when one mummer, having proclaimed that he has just murdered his wife's lover...
...been Grigsby-Grunow Co., which in 1929 made more radio sets than any other company. But. after dropping to $14 1/2 during the Break, Grigsby-Grunow has been slow to recover, for radio business is risky business-or so it seems to the public after what happened to Roister, Freshman and a half-dozen others. And, in addition to risky radios, Grigsby-Grunow has decided to manufacture refrigerators, a field where General Motors, General Electric and Kelvinator present formidable competition. In 1928 General Asphalt Co. beat a disorderly retreat from this field...