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...only other portion of the library accessible to the casual visitor is a series of rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast...
Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, following the titled Englishman's traditional way to pin money, put some furniture on sale at Sotheby's auction rooms in London, realized $271.60 for a pair of four-poster beds, $1,232 for two 18th century bookcases...
Liebesfreiheit. All students get intensive language instruction in German from native teachers, and plenty of practice with the amiable Beutelsbachers. The results are impressive, although not perfect -on one dining hall poster, "love of freedom'' (Freiheitsliebe) came out Lie-besfreiheit-free love...
...This is as bad as hanging an election poster in a voting booth," he said...
...pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever he had a day off from his paying job. After about a year and a half of Sunday shooting, he persuaded the West Bengali provincial government to finance the production as a sort of animated travel poster. A year later Father Panchali was in the can. But when the members of the provincial government saw the picture, they were badly shaken. They had put up the better part of the production cost ($38,640) for a travelogue, and what was this peculiar thing they...