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...high-class modern structure " erected on a popular site in Atlantic City...
Fanny Brice, actress: "At Atlantic City I underwent an operation to make my nose conform with my style of beauty. The New York Times remarked editorially that I had had the organ 'condemned and torn down and was about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
...pressing of a button ? gone are the days when mechanics had to swing a propeller painfully and dangerously and many times. Passengers are partially enclosed and protected from wind and rain, yet have a magnificent view. The inside of the cabin is like the inside of a high-class automobile. Every detail of control, seating and power plant installation is perfect. Mooring rings and anchor provide for any kind of emergency landing. When a ship such as the Graylark is compared with the seaplanes used during the War, such as the HS-2, equipped with the same Liberty motor...
Even the Prohibitionists, headed by Wayne H. Wheeler, the leader of the Anti-Saloon League, favored his removal. For Wilson is of a calibre incommensurate with the needs of a high-class executive...
Cinderella wanders in and out of the plot at will, but her presence is hardly necessary to the elaborate revue, which, after all, resembles chiefly a high-class vaudeville on a huge scale. A total of 22 scenes takes the spectator everywhere from the League of Nations Meeting at Versailles to a lavishly-decorated Top of the World, and each separate number is a pleasingly varied form of dance, song or humor. The Purcella brothers do some clever dance specialties, Vivien Oakland sings well, and John T. Murray keeps the audience in laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small...