Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Mayor Richard Annakin of Harrogate, famed "British spa.'' Both men are rugged pacifists. Last week Mayor Annakin cowed his City Council with an ultimatum. If they counted on him to take part in Harrogate's celebration of Empire Day (May 24), he said, they must strike the singing of ''Rule Britannia" off the program...
...strike the Imperial note as resoundingly as possible, the new Empress of Britain will be painted in the same colors as the old Medina, which in 1911 carried George V and Queen Mary to India for their Durbar, namely white with a band of royal blue. Proudly the Canadian Pacific Line will announce their new ship as the largest on the St. Lawrence route to Europe. A brand new mammoth dock awaits her at Quebec...
...always interesting and sometimes startling question of what Mr. George Washington Hill and his American Tobacco Co. are likely to do next was last week answered when Lucky Strike's ''future shadow." suddenly expanded from the chin in which it originated and spread over the entire figure, monstrous, ominous, and exaggerated even to advertising's nth degree. For a long time the public had been accustomed to seeing, in Lucky, advertisements, a picture of a single-chinned man or woman casting a fat and double-chinned shadow, the moral being that by much smoking instead...
...years ago he left the legitimate theatre for the motion picture, feeling that the latter was a greater art. Since then he has rapidly risen to fame, although the number of his productions is comparatively small. Beginning in 1924, he has produced four pictures, the first of which was "Strike." This was followed, in 1925, by "Potemkin," produced on the twentieth anniversary of the unsuccessful Russian revolution of 1905. "Ten Days That Shook the World," released in 1927, commemorated the successful revolt of 1917. His latest picture is "Old and New," a production dealing with the agricultural problems of Russia...
Musical ? EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK (TIME, July 15), FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), SONS o' GUNS (TIME, Dec. 9), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME...