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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copley manages to survive, and the new Boston Theatre Guild may succeed; but they are in some measure the accepted fixtures. It is harder for new plays and unknown companies to "break the ice; even "Mary Rose" was not over-whelmingly popular. It will be interesting to see the reception accorded "Liliom" or, when it comes, "The Circle". Perhaps after all it would be easier to devote all the larger theaters to the showing of moving pictures; certainly they are the only unqualified success at present...
...miles to fifty and one hundred miles. The thing was enthralling to those having the kind of a mind that these amateurs possessed. The idea of sitting at home and conversing by dots and dashes with a kindred spirit in a distant city, who was completely unknown personally, was absolutely compelling. It really amounted to a private telegraph line, for there was no expense involved, and any number of persons could be included...
...number of stations at present listening is unknown, but those in a position to judge estimate it is numbering well over 200,000. The writer recently delivered an address from the Newark, N. J. station of the Westing house Company and it was estimated that he spoke to an audience of at least twenty five thousand persons. The thing has so gotten hold of the lay public, who never would learn the dot and dash code of telegraphy, that at the present time it is almost impossible to buy a receiving set. The demand for them will be met, however...
...deliberations of the present disarmament conference in Washington were broadcasted, as they might easily be, it would be of inestimable value to mankind. The actual words of the various representatives would be infinitely more influential than the cold print of the newspaper. The occasion of the burial of the Unknown Soldier hero at Arlington cemetery recently would have been an incalculably valuable thing for humanity at large to have heard at first hand. There are a vast number of us who do not realize the bigger and better things of life. The printed page does not reach such people...
...character of the movement of the earth's crust can fairly be assumed to have been similar to that at the time of the San Francisco shock, in which the rocks at an unknown depth slipped horizontally past each other about 16 feet on a verticle plane. This formation, technically known as a 'fault', extends along the coast, nearly parallel to it, and stretches for a great distance on the ocean's bottom...