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After months of sober head-scratching, the directors of Paramount Pictures last week decided on a successor to President John Otterson, who got his walking papers at the last stockholders meeting (TIME, June 29). Their choice was Barney Bala ban, one of the new directors elected last month and co-founder of Chicago's chain of Balaban & Katz theatres...
...Centennial, her pride was pinched. Amon Carter and friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth's "Frontier Centennial" was planned...
First of all, the need of a source of drinking water in the Yard, not only at Commencement, but at all times, is so obvious as to need no discussion. Dr. Barney '00 and Professor Morison '08, are to be congratulated that largely through their efforts, the College has not installed a modern drinking fountain, which would be the simplest and most economical thing to do, but is placing as far as possible, a faithful replica of the old pump...
...Just before she sailed for England last month, she was guest of honor at a Boston banquet, hailed as U. S. Sportswoman No. 1. Currently Sportswoman Sears is interested in squash racquets, walking, tennis and riding, though she no longer rides in steeplechases on her favorite horse Barney...
Last week the nation was once again in the violent grip of a crazy song. The successor to K-K-K-Katy (1918) and Barney Google (1923) was selling a-copy-a-minute over sheet music counters, might well go on to the fabulous two million high of Yes, We Have No Bananas (1923). The three U. S. phonograph companies (Victor. Decca, Brunswick-Columbia) were distributing the tune under their dozen-odd labels. A tie, a sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported...