Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permission. Then the company obtained from Judge F. P. Schoonmaker of the U. S. District Court an injunction for the union men's eviction, on the ground that they were hampering the company's business, part of which is the interstate shipment of coal. To hamper interstate trade, said the company, is to violate the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Judge Schoonmaker agreed and wrote into the injunction a number of other prohibitions wanted by the company, against the unionists throwing rocks at company officials or dynamiting company land, against trespassing, loitering or even parading near company property...
...whipped into a poignant pageant of emotion by Rouben Mamoulian. Before Porgy opened, his name meant nothing. The next morning he had three offers from envious producers to come over and stage shows for them. He is 30, an Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in Moscow to learn his trade in the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was directing for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester when he sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy they asked...
Around littered newspaper offices the news was interesting trade talk, but not startling. Journalists gossiped vividly over the report that Mr. Watson is having his Mirror office painted a gentle grey; has commissioned Joseph Urban, artist, architect, designer of scenery for the Follies, to paint three murals there...
Poor People of the stage, of whom there are plenty, read wistfully in last week's Variety (theatrical trade paper) that Al Jolson has rejected an offer of $20,000 a week for an indefinite period to appear in the prolog at the Capitol cinema theatre in Manhattan. Mr. Jolson has money, a million or more; worries about his health. Eva Le Gallienne has no faith in her belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict...
...Rationale of Free Trade," Professor Cole, Harvard...