Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duties in Spain are so arduous that he may never come to America, so he is sending me instead, to 'show his interest in America, because I am his namesake. . . . This year and next there will be great expositions at Seville and Barcelona, so there has now been established the Patronato Regio del Turismo (Royal Tourist Board) composed of many important Spanish personages...
Fashions are of two types, experimental and accepted. Experimental fashions, observable at the opera and expensive restaurants, are dangerous for the prudent shopper. Accepted fashions show themselves on the street, in good but inexpensive restaurants...
...from Reed Institute at Portland, Oregon, last week, cast doubt. P. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (Old Gold) in particular has been illustrating its extensive advertisements with photographs of famed persons choosing Old Golds while blindfolded from among other brands. Reed Institute laboratory tests by one Louis Goodman, graduate student, however, show that only once in nine times on the average does one recognize his favorite cigaret whether he is blindfolded...
Smug Broadwayfarers learned last week that the shoguns of the show world, principally the Brothers Shubert, Albert Herman Woods, William A. Brady, Arthur Hammerstein, had bickered among themselves, had dickered with one David R. Hochreich, president of Vocafilm Corporation of America, makers of a talking picture device that theretofore had been obscured by Movietone (parade music, gunfire) and by Vitaphone (Ben Bernie, tapdancing, Frances Williams). Unofficially, the newspapers said that Hochreich and the theatre shoguns had made a deal: Hochreich to receive money, the producers the rights to his invention...
Said Fred Stone, acrobatic, clean-show comedian, "I'll take it up myself now." Into his Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...