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...crowds circulated vendors of the real, authentic Basilica cigarets, proceeds from the sale of which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...
...Chesterfield, R. J. Reynolds its Camel. Fat and quick-tempered, Ben Belt is still an excellent horseman, a better salesman. He decided Lorillard should have its Old Gold, in fact must have it if it would stay in the race. The name Old Gold then belonged to a Lorillard brand of smoking tobacco whose sales were almost nil. The name appealed to Belt and the cigaret became his chief care and enthusiasm, still is except for his horses. But cigarets are not made popular in a day. Lorillard earnings shrank almost to nothing during the promotion years. It took many...
...Stanford football team of 1894 of which Herbert Hoover was treasurer assembled at the White House last week for a reunion (TIME, Nov. 16). After greeting his old teammates the President led them out to the rear posing ground for pictures. In his soft hand he gingerly balanced a brand new football, marked '94. Then he went back to his office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while...
That the show was a failure was no fault of Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, two droll fellows who make many spectators scream with laughter. Funny man Clark did his best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this...
...faithful in the face of Mr. Hale's shameful desertion, is making what promises to be a successful appeal for her former prestige. "The Old Lady in Brown" has bobbed her hair, enlisted the services of a typographical Patou in beautifying her person and has appeared in a brand new and handsome format. In addition to this the editorial content of the issue evidences a vitality and sanity which will make "The Hoot" look to its bays and laurels. The New York Herald-Tribune