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...Late Christopher Bean (by René Fauchois; Gilbert Miller, producer). Playwright Sidney Howard has drastically adapted Playwright Fauchois' Prenez Garde à la Peinture, shifted the scene from the suburbs of Paris to New England, turned Frenchmen into Yankees. The result is a zestful tale about avarice, abiding love and a painter whose reputation was made for him ten years after his poverty-laden death. An article in The Atlantic Monthly suddenly brings down a horde of critics, crafty art dealers and forgers about the ears of Dr. Haggett (Walter Connolly), in whose home the late great Chris Bean lived...
...forth in countless jokes and cartoons, Mr. Smith told friends he had not thus greeted Governor Roosevelt. Mr. Smith addresses as "potatoes" such old intimates as William Kenny, Daniel Mooiiey, George Van Namee, has done so for years. A friendly phrase, he uses it as an Englishman does "old bean." Possible derivation: In Manhattan's lower East Side resides many a Murphy; white potatoes are sometimes referred to as "mur-phys." Al Smith first called Murphys and then other Irish friends "potatoes." ' Pronounced...
...will be made by joint purchases of raw materials, by White's use of the big Studebaker sales organization. Studebaker's truck business, hitherto small, will probably be combined with White's. It is thought that the chief White executives will be retained. First among these is Ashton G. Bean who succeeded Mr. Woodruff as president two years ago. He is a forceful, hard-headed executive who has made automobile accessories, automatic telephones, phonograph motors and is still president of Bishop & Babcock, makers of soda-fountain parts. White's chief engineer is Vice President Harold D. Church who was with...
These phrases describe the actual situation in Russia, not in Chile. In Chile, a land as long and slim as a string bean, the resources do not exist to defy World Capitalism. No battle fleet could seriously menace the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which sprawls over one-sixth of the earth, but a second-rate navy prowling up & down the Chilean coast could pulverize every city, town and hamlet...
Tung oil (also called "wood oil") is used, in addition to paints and varnishes, for insulation and for waterproofing. The U. S. oil is selling at about 10? per Ib. against 6? for imported oil. The imported oil is of inferior quality, generally adulterated with soy bean oil. Two years ago the price of imported oil was 14-15?. There are only 3,500 acres in the U. S. in production now. When the 25,000 acres now planted are in full bearing they should yield 50,000,000 Ib. against normal imports of twice that much...