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...Laurence '12, that is to be used in the performance of the Dramatic Club, has the merit of not sounding too much like. By Americanizing the play to a certain extent, or rather de-Russianizing it, he has helped to bring out the fact that its appeal is not local but universal...
...Although local boosters quite naturally take this news to mean that Hagerstown is at last coming to long-merited recognition as a centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect to hear him this winter, this is just what they will have to do, for Paderewski will not play in Washington...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...
...Genoa the local Coal Exchange launched an appeal to all patriotic Italians to contribute voluntarily "uno dollaro" yearly toward Italy's payment of her debt to the U.S. The plan originally envisioned contributions from five million Italians, which would cover the full yearly payments for the first five years (TIME, Nov. 23). Cried II Duce when he heard of the plan: "Good. But for the present I need only $1,000,000. I shall expect that to be paid...
...seven prizes to be awarded the competitors are as follows: a gold medal to the individual or organization best meriting recognition for distinguished contemporary services to advertising; two prizes of two thousand dollars each;--one for a national campaign, the other for a local campaign; two thousand dollars for the advertising research of the year judged most conspicuous either for securing economy or efficiency in advertising, or for reducing or precluding unwise expenditure in a specific advertising program; three prizes of one thousand dollars each,--for the advertisement most effective in text, that most effective in use of pictorial illustration...