Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After every financial crisis, curious eyes turn toward the luxury trades. Last week, many eyes turned toward diamonds. Sardonically, they noted the following developments in three great world diamond centres...
Many a motion picture studio set after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...
...Henri Deterding is, as everyone knows, head of the Royal Dutch-Shell petroleum interests, largest crude oil producing company in the world. Old in the oil business, veteran of many oil wars, Sir Henri at one time battled, not unsuccessfully, with Standard of New Jersey in its pre-dissolution period. In more recent years he has (despite his non-compromise statement) preferred peace to war, as witness his agreement (in March) with U. S. oil interests concerning the marketing of Russian oil. In April he sat in on an American Petroleum Institute oil restriction program, gave tacit approval...
...Giovanni has been played by such famed singers as Christine Nilsson, Marcella Sembrich, Lilli Lehmann, Lillian Nordica, Emma Eames, Edouard de Reszk?é, Maurice Renaud, Victor Maurel and Antonio Scotti, who 30 years ago made his U. S. debut as the Don. Critics everywhere name it one of the world's great operas, some say the greatest. Not for 21 years, until last week, had it been given at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...maintained that for the special student it is actually an advantage to make . . . comparisons . . . under one roof. . . . There is really very little in the plea. The specialist is . . . the last man to make comparisons. . . . You are doing him no favor to bring tha art of the world into unnatural . . . juxtaposition . . . you are doing the simple art-lover a great disservice...