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...Chevrolet." Along with this gossip about the placid life of the prosperous little farm community (pop. 1,200), was one item of more than ordinary interest: "Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hunter have planned to hold open house for Noble Hunter, Sunday afternoon ... at their home, 209 Aldrich Avenue. Mr. Hunter will be 93 years of age Saturday...
...chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, Winthrop W. Aldrich is not accustomed to having anyone tell him how to run his business. Last week he made that plain at the bank's annual meeting. A stockholder complained against the bank's loan of $25 million last year to Franco's Spain, and offered a resolution prohibiting another loan without approval of a "big majority" of stockholders. Aldrich ruled the resolution out of order, went on to explain that the loan was secured by gold and approved by the State Department. But just to make...
There are nice performances, beginning with Maurice Evans' reciting of a sprightly modern prologue. As Tony Lumpkin, the celebrated booby of the piece, Ezra (Henry Aldrich) Stone is amusing but cannot avoid the booby trap of badly overdoing things. Celeste Holm and Brian Aherne are an engaging pair of lovers, and Burl Ives a good solid 18th Century father. Almost everybody, indeed, acts agreeably; the hitch is that virtually no two people act in the same style...
Caesar and Cleopatra (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) remains after half a century one of Shaw's, and hence the modern theater's, most vigorous plays. Shaw has often been more amusing, and sometimes more electrifying or profound. But in Caesar, using comedy with little flippancy, he achieved sharp comment; and with history for a pedestal, he set something Roman and solid upon...
Next he squelched Co-Producer Richard Aldrich's idea of sharing risks by bringing other producers into the deal: "The entrepreneurs must be a solid single firm taking all the profits and risking all the loss . . . Are you a man of business or a philanthropic distributor of rake-offs...