Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alice Joyce gave a good show, perhaps the best job that any potent cinema player attempting the stage has done to date. She cannot, as yet, match talents with experienced Manhattan actresses, but gives decided promise. Owen Moore, less good, played sullenly. Both were nervous, appalled by the mass of cinema potentates in the opening audience, purveyors of huge talking picture contracts to players who can talk...
...their American Public Health Association. His successor as Chicago's commissioner of health is Arnold Henry Kegel, who, technically untrained in public health work, is doing a fair job. In New York City Dr. Harris' successor is Shirley W. Wynne, who not yet has had opportunity to show his worth in improving general public health...
This is the fourth straight make-up part played this year by Actor Chaney who in the past has used hideous disguises. Now nearing 50, Actor Chaney likes his relatives to call him Alonzo, his real name. He has a married son and has himself been in the show business for 30 years, first in a singing stock company in Colorado Springs, then as a legit-actor touring the Middle West in comedy, tragedy and operetta, and subsequently as wardrobe man, property man, chorus man, transportation agent, scenery-shifter (for Mansfield, Mojeska, Mantell), tourist guide, interior decorator, before his first...
...glance at the recent history of U. S. mail order houses. Balance sheets of Sears Roebuck and of Montgomery Ward are the particular pride of bulls, the dull despair of bears. In 1921, Year of Deflation, Sears Roebuck admitted an operating loss of $16,435,468. And Montgomery Ward showed a loss of $9,887,396. But in 1922, both companies declared net profits of about $5,000,000. By 1927, Montgomery Ward could show profits of $13,127,431, and Sears Roebuck nearly twice as much. Estimating 1928 profits, analysts see large gains over 1927 figures, with Montgomery Ward...
...will be to stabilize its offensive game and to match its defense against the Dartmouth aerial attack. The Green will attempt to run the ball but if the Harvard line holds it will resort to the passing game. In order for the Crimson to win it will have to show a vast improvement over the showing which if made against the Army tosses last Saturday...