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Another typical case is that of the Strand Theatre, Akron. The Strand's musicians must remain in the pit six hours on Sunday, three hours on week days, although they only play for 15 minutes per day since the installation of a sound apparatus. If they leave, their contract is broken...
...Admiral Nelson ashore. Alibi-skillful, authentic crook-play with dialog. The Letter- Maugham melodrama with Jeanne Eagels and good synchronization. Madame X- marks a spot where old-fashioned melodrama becomes good entertainment. (B) The Broadway Melody (records everywhere); The Wild Party ($30,500 Granada, San Francisco); Weary River ($26.300, Strand, Brooklyn); The Barker ($25,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles...
...Sunday magazine articles, "superbly formed." In office hours, in sombre office attire, she looks perhaps more resolute than charming, and most of the pearls are hidden beneath her dress. But at social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week a hearty endorsement-by-rumor...
When that tired old Spaniard, Juan Ponce de Leon, landed with flags and thirst and prayers of thanksgiving upon the southeastern strand of North America, he at once inquired after a specific against old age and mortality-a miracle-flowing spring of everlasting youth and happiness...
From London, John Steele cabled the Chicago Tribune that Mr. Tunney was suffering from delusions of persecution, that he turned on a young man in the Strand, shook his cane, and said: "Look here, young man, if you are following me I am just about likely to hit you over the head with this stick...