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Empire, Broadway at 40th.--The Captive. For those interested in pure theatre this play should hold much attraction. Its Lesbian theme is handled perfectly by Bourdet in La Prisonniere, and Hornblow Jr. has not lost much in translating it. Helen Menken at times falls short of the mark, but is, on the whole, fine...
...chose to follow the 40th parallel (New York City) around, he would have 13,855 miles to go. If he picked one of the long summer days of the year, he would have about 17 hours in which to get back to his starting point before-daylight left it. He would have to cover 815 miles an hour, or 13% miles a minute, or nearly 400 yards a second...
...motion" pictures one day when looking out at a Manhattan crowd through a ground glass in the back of a camera. Then Martin had told him about having taken pictures in rapid sequence, and Inventor LeRoy had worked out a machine for projecting them. On his 40th birthday, in 1894, LeRoy made his first demonstration, then toured...
...cleaning system must be modernized. Floors must be painted, rugs replaced. From the storehouse Mrs. Coolidge brought forth a table inset with brass; also, a chair of President Jackson's, which she placed in Mr. Coolidge's study. ¶The President, with a company of the great, attended the 40th spring dinner of the Gridiron Club (composed of Washington newspaper correspondents). A "circus" provided burlesques of "Ringmaster Butler," "the Miami twins, Bill and Charlie,'" "Walsh, the wild man, who goes wild on oil and sugar." The LaFollette crowd, it was announced, had crawled under the tent...
...second prize was awarded to the extraordinary new structure of the American Radiator Co. on West 40th Street. It is a great black tower, looking not unlike a pile of coal, culminating in glowing gold and yellow, like the flames of an unbanked fire. One of its most notable features is its display basement, where stokers in uniform show heating appliances in actual operation in an elaborately decorative furnace room with a vaulted ceiling...