Commercial History Is Made: Rhea feathers have a commercial value in the manufacture of feather dusters. In many places rheas are threatened with extinction, but, although they breed readily in confinement, no efforts to raise them on a commercial scale appear to have been made.
J9th and 20th Centuries. In the 19th century, the gap between literature and the theater widened. Many serious writers tried their hands at dramatic writing; but while Shelley created an arresting closet drama in The Cenci (1819) and Tennyson won commercial success with Becket (1879), most of the others found, like Henry James, that even if they fancied themselves to be made for the stage, they were not made for the commercial theater. The playhouses and their audiences grew larger, the favored style of acting became broader and more emphatic, and spectacular historical dramas and superficial "well-made plays" of entertainment dominated the theater.
Permanence,! quite as much as distinction and subtlety, concerns the scientific searcher,! since wonderful scents are always being made, only to dismay their cre-j ators by soon changing character or becoming too weak for use. Only son very rare discovery is found to retain its power, as if by some miracle of] Nature, and then commercial history is made. Most of the big dressmakers | (Schiaparelli, Dior, Worth, Balenciaga, Chanel) have their own brands,] and other famous names are Caron, Coty, Lanvin, Lanc6me, Houbigant,] Bourjois, Guerlain and the firm of Roger and Gallet. If you want to see] perfumes being made try to visit the town of Grasse, near Cannes. Fou thousand tons of roses and orange blossoms, as well as countless ot blooms, are crushed into oil in Grasse every year and the whole reg fairly reeks with their pungent fragrance. Drive in against the breeze you can smell Grasse miles before you see it!
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