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...Golden Arrow (Warner) is a minor comedy based upon the theory that a pressagent for a cosmetic company could make headlines by: 1) establishing a cafeteria cashier as a cold cream heiress; 2) grooming her to marry a European title; 3) publicizing her $30-a-week newshawk husband as ''the American Cinderella Man." This is Bette Davis' first film since she won an Academy award for acting in Dangerous (TIME, March 16)- a fact of which Warner Brothers made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop...
...Manhattan, Leonard J. Winston, 26, $30-a-week real estate and insurance salesman, met and wooed Elinor Samuels last September. Winston convinced the girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then he brought her home to his Manhattan flat and showed her the gas range. In one month of home life she used 24? worth of gas. Last week he sued for a separation. Ruled Justice McGeehan: "Unless she goes back to her husband and does the work which is concomitant...
...years Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith has been a $9-a-week brokers' clerk in Manhattan, fight promoter in Great Britain, biggest bear since Jesse Livermore, greatest bull since William Crapo Durant. The commodity in which he is always bearish is hooey. Every time President Hoover and Dr. Julius Klein said things were going to get better in 1930, the profane, pale-eyed Irishman unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold...
...Ochs's confidant, adviser, ambassador, and on occasion, alter ego. Just short of 40 years ago he first approached Mr. Ochs, who had bought the moribund Times, persuaded the publisher to hire him at $40 a week. He was then 26, and had pulled himself up from $6-a-week reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might...
...compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine for the sweetheart and sport shoes he cannot possess on his $16-a-week salary...