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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed for the benefit of the retailer, until now the term "travelling representative" is much more fact than fiction. Manufacturers today seek to keep the good will of the purchaser, and try in every way to keep him satisfied...
Course. Issuing last week its schedule for the spring term, the University of California listed a new course-Appreciation of the Photoplay. "Recognizing," said a prospectus, "the influence of the screen story and the photo drama as important in the cultural development of the country, and believing that photoplays should be considered in any serious historical and scientific study of art and sociology . . . the University will soon offer the degree of Bachelor of Science in Cinematography...
...years, Mr. Adams has served without interruption as treasurer of Harvard University and a member of the Corporation. His connection with the Corporation has not been merely nominal or advisory, but he has been an active member, and as such one of the seven longest in term of office since the founding of the Corporation...
President Coolidge was approaching the end of his term of office. He had not yet announced his plans for the future. How might a loud, bold U. S. newspaper have created a nation-wide sensation out of that situation? One way might have been to send to President Coolidge, and simultaneously make public, the following telegram...
Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...