Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London amused themselves by very strange contests. During [a] trial ... it came out that the idea of these contests was: who is the quickest in undressing? Especially the young ladies of London society took part in these contests. The girl who was the first to be naked on the stage got the first prize." Fine...
From 1790 to 1836, about 10.000 patents were issued; since 1836. about 2,200,000. The present rate is around 40,000 a year (in 1939: 43,070). Of these, probably 90% to 95% will never reach the manufacturing stage. About two out of every five patent applications are turned down. Today the Patent Office occupies eight and one-half acres of floor space, gives work to 1,354 people, of whom 703 are trained examiners. Its annual printing bill runs over $1,000,000 a year. But the fees usually turn up a surplus, and the Treasury last year...
...plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and Higher is really floored by the Servant Problem. As though that were not enough, the show goes in for haunted rooms, visitors from Iceland, phantom coachmen, hidden wine cellars, a butlers' ball. Otherwise there is virtually no plot...
...Craven (who dissented from the cancellation order) labeled the reasoning of his colleagues "absurd on its face." "Nothing can stop scientific research and technical progress in a free democracy," wrote he, "if incentive is not discouraged by government. ... In my opinion, the technique of television has advanced to the stage where an initial public trial is entirely justified. . . . There is no need ... for a commission in Washington to substitute its judgment for that of the public...
Died. James Jay O'Brien, 55, broker, gentleman jockey, member of the victorious 1932 U. S. Olympic four-man bobsled team; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. His first wife: Silent Cinemactress Mae Murray. His second: Stage Actress Irene Fenwick. His widow: Laura Hylan Heminway Fleischmann O'Brien, former wife of the late Julius (yeast) Fleischmann...