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...lush days of Caruso, World War I and the booming 20s, paunchy Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza built up a $1,100,000 surplus, but depression tore it down again. By 1933 the Metropolitan had to pass the hat for $300,000. Since then, the Metropolitan has been regularly running...
Though he feuded with aristocrats, he preserved his awe of them. As a self-avowed snob, he considered himself the high priest of what remained of the old social aristocracy which had been all but obliterated by the rising horde of new millionaires spawned by the '20s...
Memory Book Briefly revived was one of the tabloid sensations of the '20s-the case of the late Long Island blueblood Leonard Kip Rhinelander and his Negro wife, Alice Jones. Rhinelander, claiming that she had represented herself as white, sued for annulment a month after their marriage in 1924, lost his case, got a Nevada divorce in 1929. She got an agreement from Rhinelander and his father to pay her $3,600 a year for life. The father continued the payments after the son's death in 1936, but after the father's death...
Nathalia Crane, famed child-poet of the late '20s, joined the faculty of Manhattan's Hunter College, as a lecturer on "rhythm, meter, rime, tone color, diction, imagery, emotion and imagination in poetry." Now 28, she declared: "It's the first time any poet has had a chance to divulge all the secrets of poetry in a classroom...
...damage suit over granulated soap. Lever's Rinso had proudly dominated that field since 1918, and Lever is still plenty mad over the $5,000,000 it had to dish out to Procter & Gamble and Colgate because a new spraying process Lever adopted in the late '20s turned out (in 1937) to be a patent infringement. About the same time, Lever enraged Procter & Gamble by bringing out Spry to compete with Procter & Gamble's long-established Crisco. Smart Lever Bros.—British-founded, now ambiguously owned by British Unilever's Dutch affiliate Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V., through...