Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agent for one of the oldest classes, wrote in his letter: "Let us therefore try to double 18--'s percentage and get fourth place on the list. Do not hesitate to send a dollar or two, unless you really want to give more. Of course this, our---anniversary year with its financial burdens, is not favorable for a great showing, but let us do our best...
Specific Effects. Scalpers are now free to charge any price they wish for theatre tickets; but the larger Manhattan agencies immediately announced that they would stick to the 50c fee, "unless the demand for tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...
...dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another of her cadaverous crones. Beryl Mercer, Edward G. Robinson and Laura Hope Crews are apt metaphors...
...Lady in Love. In the Restoration Period, an Englishman went to gaol if he got inextricably into debt-unless, of course, he had a daughter to marry off to a miserly spindle-legged monster. Peggy Wood, a maid passing fair, plays the daughter sold to a miser. But she has her consolation-a ruddy ragged redcoat, Captain Bragdon (Gavin Gordon). Who shall cast the first stone when he, disguised as a corpse and wheeled into the boudoir by the order of the fear-stricken husband himself, comes to life and love? Certainly not hearty, round-bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney...
...Every foreign influence in art and culture will be combated to the last ditch, the principal ones being the American movies, German architecture and French modern literary modes. No artistic work will receive approval unless it is 100% Italian in style and inspiration...