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...presentation, The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax of the satire comes when one mummer, having proclaimed that he has just murdered his wife's lover...
...been Grigsby-Grunow Co., which in 1929 made more radio sets than any other company. But. after dropping to $14 1/2 during the Break, Grigsby-Grunow has been slow to recover, for radio business is risky business-or so it seems to the public after what happened to Roister, Freshman and a half-dozen others. And, in addition to risky radios, Grigsby-Grunow has decided to manufacture refrigerators, a field where General Motors, General Electric and Kelvinator present formidable competition. In 1928 General Asphalt Co. beat a disorderly retreat from this field...
...contains the only entirely separate markets in the United States. Prices on the Los Angeles and San Francisco Stock Exchanges- whose seats are now selling for approximately $150,000 each-are in no way dependent on New York Stock Exchange prices. Some stocks such as Standard Oil of California, Roister Radio, Pacific Gas & Electric, California Packing [Del Monte Brand products] are listed on both Pacific Coast and New York boards, and the prices sometimes vary east and west. Financial news printed in Eastern business newspapers reaches California too stale to be news. And Westerners certainly deserve fresh financial news...
...expel him from the Fatherland on the ground that he has no valid passport. Since then he has been in Brussels, Belgium, still wineing and womening without stint, but under threat of momentary expulsion. Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria-where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain...
...Delta Upsilon Elizabethan Revival, "Ralph Roister Doister," in "The Barn," Wellesley...