Word: urbanities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
Dixie Dugan is played by pert, agile Ruby Keeler ("Mrs. Al") Jolson, whose reedy little voice blends naturally with familiar Broadway trebles. On the stage she is almost lost in the magnificence of scenes conceived by Joseph Urban, court painter to Producer Ziegfeld...
...cannot buy anything with the money he gets from his grain, and 2) the Government is levying heavy grain taxes upon him by forcing him to sell most of his crop at a low Government-fixed price (to keep the price of bread within the means of urban workers and to net the Government a profit on its exports). The fact that there is more grain planted this year is due not to peasant efforts but to State farms and co-operatives inaugurated by the Government to combat the negative attitude of the peasant...
...basket parties on the lawns. Recently the city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check privilege alone for $12,000. Joseph Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman...
...color-effects are by Joseph Urban...