Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition of advertising is interesting both from the railroad and advertising point of view. Some of the colored posters show a remarkable improvement over the usual unartistic methods of American advertising...
Charles Leatherbee '29, president of the Dramatic Club, will direct the forth-coming production of "Fiesta" instead of the usual professional director. This will be the first time in many years that the show has been directed and staged wholly by an undergraduate...
...Singing Fool (records all over); Show People ($33,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles, with Hearst boosting); Lilac Time ($18,000, Saenger, New Orleans); Wings ($15,000, Eckel, Syracuse...
...customs inspecting squad whose special duty it is to prevent the smuggling of diamonds. How unsuccessful this organization has been may be understood from the complaints of reputable jewelers. Pointing out that they must pay 20% duty on cut diamonds and 10% duty on uncut ones, they show that disreputable jewelers, who buy from smugglers, can undersell them with ill-gotten gems. It is alleged that $40,000,000 changes hands yearly in diamond smuggling commerce; and the reputable jewelers have lately suggested the solution, highly insulting to the customs officials, that since the duties cannot be enforced, a return...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...