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Oct. 29, 1929-Just Another Day
The Weather Was Dismal But Times Were Good;
Stock Market Irregularities Worried Few People
By STEPHEN HEILPERN
NEW YORK City was damp and j The legitimate atage was also
chilly. The mercury had having an excellent season. A
reached 50 shortly after noon, young songstress named Gertrude
then slumped back into the Lawrence was at the Empire,
middle 40's. , George M. Cohan was starring in
The weather was about the only his own show at the Fulton, and
depressing topic New Yorkers ' Eddie Cantor's big hit, "WhoopeeaS
could talk of. The Twenties were {' was attracting standing-room-
still roaring, and no one was car- only crowds at the New Amster-
ing about the weather. A retreat0 dam.
to a nearby speakeasy would make It was a special day for the
you forget the gloominess of the opera fans. The Met was opening
Tuesday afternoon, that night with "Manon Lescaut."
Some worry-warts were trying I' with Lucrezia Bori in the title
to stop the October fun by role
prophesying doom; the recent ir- ' The only people out of luck on
regularities of the stock market 'Tuesday, October 29, 1929, were
were making them feel uneasy. those who couldn t make the
Bosh! The Federal Reserve Board shows that evening. Even these
had just told everyone there'd be unforttnates, however, could find
nothing to worry about. solace. If they happened to be
Most people were too busy to lucky enough to own a radio they
let themselves be bothered with could look forward to listening to
Wall Strect's little problems. Busy Paul Whiteman's program at 9.
making money, busy spending
money. No trouble making it, less ' rOW DID Ann Arbor spend the
trouble spendin' it. . 29th of October?
./The weather was the same as
AKE John D. Rockefeller, for ' 5 in New York. The University's
instance. His dream of build- 9,399 students - a record enroll-
inga city within a city was grad- ment - were complaining about
ually coming true He had just ' the rain and or bluebooks, and
picked the architects for the were even more oblivious to the
proiec faint heart murmur of Wall
Whrever people vent they Street.
were being assured that the Thi s Coach Harry Kipke's main wor-
ties would be even more prosper- ry was his football team. He
ous. A brokerage firm had placed x might have a chance against Har-
an advertisement i n Th 'imes vard next Saturday, if he could
saying. "In our opinion the Ares- only come up with a scoring
ent affords a favorable opportu- punch.
nity to acquire the stocks of banks Townspeople were having duf-
and insurance companies for ,sfieulty in telling male students
long-range investments." from coeds; the boyish "flat
U.S. Steel had announced an. A. ' look" was still evident among the
extra dividend of one dollar, Al- girls.
bie Booth was creating a sensa- The campus was buzzing with
tion with his great play for Yale's talk of Larry Gould, Michigan's
eleven, Arnold Constable was famous geologist, who had recent-
selling $75 silk-lined suits with ly left with Richard E. Byrd for
the two-button cut, and Marl- i Antarctica
boros were costing 20 cents for
"those who can afford the best." WALTER RAE, assistant dean
Congress was deciding wheth- of students, was notifying ev-
er or not to pass the Smoot-Haw- eryone that he was going to crack
ley tariff law, and Norman down on those students driving
Thomas, Jimmy Wolker and Fior- New Yori by NI it cars without permit tags.
ello LaGuardia were running for For those who weren't being
mayor, the legitimate stage. The Broad- faced with tests the next day, the
way producer was saying that Whitney Theatre was offering a
ARTHUR Hammsrstein was ad- there might be a future for him in musical revue, and the Michigan,
mitting publicly for the first Hollywood. Majestic and Wuerth theatres
time that "talkies" were affecting Sound pictures were taking were presenting popular films.
New York by storm. Lenore Ulric It was a normal 1929 day in
S/e/hen /il/>era, a fsrner was making her talkie debut in Ann Arbor, as it was in New York.
,,oria/e s>ort/s edi/or of 1Tm' "Frozen Justice," at the Roxy, the But that's not what the history
r /ichigan DailC/e/ a s/or Capitol was presenting Marion books tell us. The market almost
h Ii th /) ady,ellmsi/s ash Davies in "Marianne," and the hit rock-bottom that Tuesday aft-
sal ihs s/seP iarket eras/ Central was also ding record ernoon. The Panic was on. and a
//'/ tn/ i /1e'his/oroo/. box-office business with "Dis- wonderful decade was to come to
raeli," starring George Arliss. a not-so-wonderful end.
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