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You Can't Take It With You (by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman; Sam H. Harris, producer) demonstrates that a pair of showmen who feel as much at home in the theatre as they do in bed can confect a magnificently funny show without bothering much about the plot...
¶ "As many as 500,000 Spaniards have perished since the Spanish War began. By far the greater number were noncombatants who died at the hands of rival firing squads or were killed in the battle for Madrid," declared Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, chairman of the American National Red...
Oldest horse-race in the U.S. is not the Kentucky Derby but Saratoga's Travers Stakes, first run in 1864. Oldest consecutively run race in North America is not the Travers Stakes but the King's Plate, run last week at Toronto, Canada. Queen Victoria, on petition of...
Three days later A. T. & T. celebrated its 50th anniversary by taking an hour on the radio, broadcasting a long-distance chat among Washington's Gary Travers Grayson, Boston's Karl Taylor Compton, Chicago's Rufus Cutler Dawes, Hollywood's Grace Moore, St. Louis' Jerome...
¶ The rare gas neon was discovered in 1898 (Ramsey & Travers of England). The neon lamp was invented in 1911 (Claude of France). Neon signs, however, did not festoon the streets of the U. S. in any numbers until the late 1929's.