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Colyumist Sidney Skolsky of the New York Daily News revealed that four streetcars in Scranton, Pa. are painted dark ivory with blue trim, bear the legend "Designed by Florenz Ziegfeld." Officials of the railway explained that the innovation grew out of a magazine article by Showman Ziegfeld criticizing the drabness of streetcars. Later, at a trolleyman's conference in Manhattan Showman Ziegfeld was invited to submit color schemes, of which the ivory & blue was accepted...
Madonna Ivan G. Olinsky Everhart Museum (Scranton...
...length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched her, she is back again giving U. S. concerts. Already she has sung in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Scranton. Last week, for the first time in five years, she gave a Manhattan recital...
...length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched her, she is back again giving U. S. concerts. Already she has sung in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Scranton. Last week, for the first time in five years, she gave a Manhattan recital...
...worry last week. The parent company has bank loans of $21,900,000 while National Electric is $27,700,000 in debt to the banks. The parent company has a $10,000,000 note issue soon falling due which it cannot meet except with stock or new notes. Its Scranton Railway Co. has a $2,100,000 bond maturity. Next year the System as a whole has $19,368,000 worth of maturities to meet, in 1934 the figure is $16,341,000 while in 1935 there will be $12,922,000 falling due. Although Mr. Insull has denied...