Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ABIF'S IRISH ROSE...
...babies A box at 'Abie's Irish Rose'; I hope we live to see It clo-o-se. ..." -OLD SONG...
Miss Anne Nichols is always in the news. If nowhere else, her name is on the theatre page where a brief notice states that her play, Abie's Irish Rose, is to be seen on Broadway. It is also to be seen in Philadelphia, in Chicago, in Fort Smith, Ark., in Pueblo, Col., in Augusta, Me., and in Sydney, Australia. Next April an eighth company opens in London. Last week the Manhattan company, with its 2,000th performance, equaled the world's record for consecutive performances.* Abie's Irish Rose has run for four years and eight...
...October, 1924, he went to Europe, visited automobile plants, asked questions of manufacturers and engineers, carefully inspected every car and body in the shows of London and Paris. Favorably impressed, President Erskine invited to Paris every Studebaker dealer and representative in Europe and some from Asia, gave a banquet, rose from his seat, fired at his agents a series of questions prepared by himself, received their answers in written form, took the answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers and body designers pored over blueprints, utilized proving grounds-and produced the Erskine...
Wearing a choker collar that looked higher than ever, Kenesaw Mountain Landis sat down at his desk in Chicago and stared solemnly and petulantly at the 50 reporters who rose to say good morning to him. Without a word he handed to each a typewritten statement of 2,000 words-his decision in the baseball scandal of having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle...