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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever before. Jealously guarded are Iceland's lucrative fisheries. Day and night they are patrolled by the country's two icebreakers, the Thor and the Odin. Trespassing trawlers are hauled before a civil court, and up to the present time fines imposed on such fish poachers have sufficed to pay the expenses of the patrol...
...intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind, will go to Iceland next June and try to act as much like an Icelander as possible, will open the festival celebrating the 1000th anniversary of Iceland...
Another illuminating, chiropractic advice: "How are you to charge what the case ought to pay? It's a question of salesmanship. But the trouble with you fellows is you're trying to tell your patients something and expecting your patient to believe something you don't believe yourself. The result is that your patient knows you're lying to him. Now I look them in the eye. And they know I know that I know that I know that I am not kidding them and they're not kidding themselves and they're not kidding me. And they're perfectly...
That whereas local dealers are buying as much music as formerly they are neither willing nor in a position to pay the fees of a few years ago. Almost the only old-time top-fee artist definitely to hold his own is Violinist Fritz Kreisler. In the U. S. as the world over he stays the greatest drawing card. Second to him in the U. S. this year have presumably been Negro Tenor Roland Hayes and the Dancer Argentina. Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff also commands top prices, full houses, but he gives few concerts now. Young Yehudi Menuhin...
...this. To the question "How much money does Fox owe the theatre?" "Roxy" replied "Not a red cent," and then added that he intends to coöperate with Cineman William Fox to the best of his ability. To the pointed query of how much Fox makes "Roxy" pay for pictures, Chairman Saul Rogers explained that the theatre pays a percentage of box office receipts: "Right here, let me tell you, Fox hasn't done so badly by you. The few outside pictures run this last year were the worst money-getters...