Becoming Americanized Italians Learn Jazz and Movies
United Press reports rapid Americanization in Italy driven by cinema and music. Americans, commerce, and popular culture including jazz, safet y razors, sewing machines, flivvers, typewriters, and es kimo pie spread through cafes and stores. Italian audiences embrace Douglas Fairbanks Chaplin and Mary Pickford, with films like The Gold Rush and The Thief of Bagdad drawing long runs and prompting police intervention at crowded box offices.
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Rome
United Press
Orritten
Mae
America
Italy
Douglas Fairhan Chaplin
Mary Pickfo
Bovie
Doug
Minuie
Xantiy
Him
Mary
Douglas
Charlie Chaplin
Charlo
Theatre-Goere
Typewriters and Pumps in Italy Spark Compare with U S Goods
The text notes Italian and German razors and typewriters rival American models on the Italian market. It mentions moonlit strolls by the Colosseum with a silent or noisy flivver nearby and automatic pumps resembling American designs but lacking electric lighting. It also references a novelty Eskimo pie called Stella Polare and a new shorthand class starting at a night school.
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Colosseum
Italy
Business College
Patient to Recover After Daughter's Mayo Clinic Operation
Shotts received a telegram from Rochester Minnesota last night informing him that his daughter Mrs Vena Stevenson had been operated on. The X ray diagnosis proved to be negative.
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Shotts
Rochester
Minn
Vena Stevenson
Mayo Brothers Hospital
Steven
Lawrence Synod Invitation Extended by Presbyterian Brotherhood
The Presbyterian Brotherhood at a recent meeting in Lawrence voted to invite the Synod of Kansas to hold its 1827 convention in Lawrence. The Rev Dr Williams H Butler, pastor, was to present the invitation, with Emproria noted in relation to the event.
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Lawrence
Presbyterian Brotherhood
Kansas
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