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...Chrysler Building are 77 stories, a much-needed smart, uptown lunching place called Cloud Club, murals by Edward Trumbull (depicting "Energy and man's application of it to the solution of his problems"). In the Bank of Manhattan Building are 71 stories, an officer's club on the 55th floor, murals by Ezra Winter (depicting oldtime Wall Street scenes...
Olympia and Uptown -- "Journey's End". Englishmen dying on the Eastern front...
...cause confusion, violent moves. To abate this, new tickers are being installed, may be ready in 60 days. Instead of the present 260 characters a minute, the new ones will zoom by with 700. Electric quotation boards are also being put into service. The first was placed in the uptown office of Sutro & Co. last May. There are now 65 in Manhattan, and some will be installed in Western offices soon...
...Uptown--"The Vagabond King," Good but expensive...
...seems scarcely necessary to enter upon a detailed discussion of Dennis King's performance at the Uptown Theatre when the box-office has already given such an accurate account of the show. At the opening night the price of admission for those who insisted on seeing (and hearing) Mr. King immediately, was five dollars but has subsequently been reduced to one dollar for all seats. This expresses the situation exactly--and uniquely; "The Vagabond King" is well worth one dollar but scarcely worth five...