Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Norman Bel Geddes has been asked to recommend theatrical policies. If his wishes are approved the Fair will include an unprecedented gathering of dramatic talent. There will be perhaps ten theatres, each devoted to some distinct phase of the art, each emphasizing the most advanced ideas which as yet receive little or no support on Manhattan's Broadway or Chicago's Randolph Street. Foreign features-Siamese dancing, marionettes from Java-will be exhibited by natives in the native fashion, not vaudevillized or adapted to U. S. taste. Mr. Geddes is going to suggest an island supper club...
...Last week, President Dawes's brother, Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, received credit for a whirlwind (two-day) campaign in which ten million dollars were raised for the Fair by appeals to potent Chicagoans...
...august Yale fence, broke campus lights, tore down a locked gate which barred exit to the street, yanked trolleys from poles, heckled policemen. Iowa University students shied eggs at the home of Paul E. Belting, director of athletics, whom they held responsible for their removal from the Big Ten...
World Divided. Convening in Minneapolis, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association declared that in ten years the Christian World will be divided between Roman Catholics, Modernists and Fundamentalists. Other divisions of Christianity would "largely perish from the earth...
...ten inches closer to the ground than the average...