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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Motor Masterpieces | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...master tricksters of the vaudeville stage can hardly duplicate in magnitude the work of the unseen gnomes that make possible the housing of such a variety of sporting and non-sporting events under a single roof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dog-Shows, Concerts, Hockey Games, Boxing Exhibitions, Vie for Hold on Boston Garden--Scenes Shift Suddenly | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

...connection with the general furthering of physical exercise at the Dental School, arrangements have been made for students in poor health to rest in the sunlight during the noon hour on cots placed for that purpose on the roof of the School building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORT PRESCRIBED BY DENTAL SCHOOL | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

...Burbank, Calif., rain seeped through the roof of the arsenal on the First National lot, saturated smoke bombs causing a chemical reaction that set off the dynamite, shells, grenades, stored there for mimic warfare. A beaver board French village outside, three workmen, and $40,000 worth of equipment blew up fanwise without hurting Corinne Griffith and 40 actors and actresses at work nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...name of a racetrack, Belmont is the name of a theatre. With the others the Belmont Theatre has much in common: the one caters to transients, guests for a day, a week; the other presents events of speed. Many a speedy transient will have been under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan, exhumed by Mr. Whiteside for 1928. The evil men do lives after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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