Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dulcet and decorative: Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, The Three Musqueteers...
...Manhattan last week the Electrical Refrigeration Show displayed the chief makes of electrically cooled refrigerators-Copeland, Iceberg, Kelvinator, Universal, Frigidaire, Icemaster, Rice, Wayne, General Electric, Iroquois, Welsbach...
...opening show, the Pennsylvania Museum exhibited several loan collections of an interesting but not startling nature. It will require many years before the magnificent edifice, built upon Greek lines out of polychromatic stones, can secure paintings which justify either its exterior or the panegyrics lavished upon it by onetime Senator Pepper and Philadelphian news-sheets...
...financing and shoot the pictures in distant crannies of the globe. Harvard will furnish a site for a laboratory on its campus; its faculty and students will help in putting the films together. Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers, zoologists, geologists, anthropologists applauded the idea...
...Show Down. Two toughened adventurers annoyed and battled with each other all over the world until at last they clamped together in the heat and sog of the tropics. The cause of the final brawl is Evelyn Brent. In a sodden camp on a Latin American oil field, four men gaze hotly at her. One is George Bancroft, alternately brute & gentleman, star of this affair. He hulks, and moralizes, fights, and suffers to no profit...