Word: current
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened in the current series of Victor Herbert revivals. Sweethearts had passed uneventfully (TIME, Oct. 7). Then Mlle. Modiste was advertised with Fritzi Scheff to sing the role she created 24 years ago. Oldsters could scarcely believe the newspapers and the great electric sign which flashed outside the theatre. But they bought tickets just the same, and went and wept and cheered. For Fritzi Scheff, now 50, still gives the illusion of sprightly youth, still plays the snare drums as the mascot of the troops, still sings bewitchingly "Kiss Me Again." Moist-eyed oldsters marveled and reminisced...
Bottles: The Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Current assets, $18,100,000: 17 plants throughout the U. S. the largest being in Toledo: world's largest manufacturer of bottles. 1928 net: $4,000,000. Chief competitor: none...
Cans: The Continental Can Co. Current assets, $26,500,000: 30 plants throughout the U. S. the largest being in Baltimore and Chicago: second largest U. S. manufacturer of tin cans. 1928 net: $6,690,796. Chief competitor: American Can, whose most famed stockholder is George Fisher Baker...
...Pierpont Morgan, of New York City, a graduate of Harvard College in 1889, and head of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, bankers, has been chosen as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year, to succeed Allston Burr, '89, of Boston, according to an announcement made public today...
...word "college" which puts the most trivial incident upon the front page." Unimportant happenings and silly pranks which-pass the unnoticed in a college town are seized upon and played by the newspapers. Almost up played by the newspapers. Almost invariably they are things which will add to the current impression fostered by the press...