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...Barney Barnato. Solomon ("Solly") Joel's re-emergence into the news revived interest in his dare-devil uncle, the late famed Barney Barnato, ne Isaacs, one-time Jewish peddler and contortionist on the streets of London, founder of the fabulous diamond fortune of the Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found...
...Barney's 85 West...
...international crime experts to the ignoble confinement of the local gaol. The cause of their downfall: softheartedness and general confusion on the part of both partners regarding the policy of the firm as a unit. Ludwig Satz, notable Jewish actor, assumes the role of Potash, once played by Barney Bernard. His is an original, shrewd Abe. As the overlording Perlmutter, Robert Leonard becomes exasperated beautifully. Of course, the audience is amused and Abe and Mawruss are released from gaol, so that they may appear before future generations in another business...
...names of most of these men are not merely lent as they might be to a worthy charity; they are men in whose lives he has played a part: Hadley at whose Alma Mater he got his education, Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Joel whose uncle (Barney Barnato) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, Taft who offered him an embassy, Coolidge who today consults him on the coal situation...
...sophisticated. About two years ago the Procter and Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...