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There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food...
...awards are divided into three classifications. The first is a gold medal given for distinguished services to advertising. The second group is for distinguished individual advertisements, four prizes of $1000 each being presented for the advertisements most effective in the use of text, of pictorial illustration, of display line, and of photography. The third class is for advertising campaigns. There are four prizes of $2000 each given for a national campaign for a specific product, a local campaign for a specific product, for a general or institutional campaign, and for a campaign of industrial products...
Valuable autographs from the Amy Lowell collection make up the greater part of the display now being exhibited in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. One of the most prized specimens included in this group is the original copy of an unpublished epitaph by Ben Jonson...
...stage. But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses. She has never played to an audience that disliked her; and she has played in the six or seven languages which she speaks. She detests publicity and does not, in her quiet demeanor, display traces of the exhibitionism which inspires all acting. She writes her own monologues...
...skill in making actors out of individuals like Jack Dempsey or even Lenore Ulric is a less rare but more valuable one. When he watched Lenore Ulric display her manikinetic tricks to Satan's jury, Producer Belasco must have smiled to himself, for it was he, not "Dr. Magister," who taught her how to do them. A little girl from Minnesota who had played in stock in Milwaukee, she came to Manhattan and played in The Mark of the Beast. After that, Belasco got her and has had her ever since. Tiger Rose, in 1917, made her very famous...