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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitates to describe the new Guild offering at the Hollis. "Wings Over Europe" as an intellectual drama with an all male cast, for there is no surer way of doing one's two cents worth toward keeping the mobs from the box office. It is best to add that intellectual describes only its lasting appeal, though as it reaches you over the footlights the appeal is primarily emotional, and that its womanlessness arises simply because the play is concerned with atomic rather than the usual spermatozoic processes...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Fort Worth, Tex., a young woman signed the registry with her rightful name- Jessie James Outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 5 cents Worth | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis gave the U. S. a big 5? worth last week. The Dec. 7 issue of his weekly magazine was advertised as "the greatest Saturday Evening Post in history." It was also the biggest issue of any magazine ever printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 5 cents Worth | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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