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...brusque Arkansan named M. Frank Yount and a florid West Virginian named Thomas Peter Lee started Yount-Lee Oil Co. at Beaumont, Tex. On an original capital of $50,000 they spent 13 years drilling in Texas and Louisiana without spectacular success. Then suddenly, in 1926, Yount-Lee made national news by rediscovering the famed Spindletop Field near Beaumont. Everybody supposed that Spindletop had been drained dry. Yount-Lee opened a rich new producing sand by drilling deeper than anybody had had the courage to go before. Later the company discovered and developed the High Island Field in Galveston County...
...checks, also totaling $46,000,000, drawn on his account. In return he received all the stock of the Yount-Lee Oil Co. at a price of approximately $2,190 per share. Biggest check went to Pansy Yount, who owned 6,800 shares. Next biggest went to a Beaumont automobile dealer named Emerson F. Woodward, who had 5,000 shares. Founder Lee, now Republican State Chairman, owned 3,000 shares...
...Glass Key (Paramount) is a figure of speech employed by Ed Beaumont (George Rait) to predict the situation in which his political boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry...
Director Frank Tuttle uses Dashiell Hammett's trick of understatement, builds his picture to unbearable suspense in the scene in which Beaumont, battered, bleeding, crawls from the bed on which Shad O'Rory's henchmen have thrown him, starts a fire in the mattress, tumbles 20 feet out a window, drags himself to safety...
...Beaumont's Babe...