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...Twisted Blackmer...
TIME should have submitted the caption on the Blackmer picture (April 16, p. 16) to its cinemacritic...
Hollywood and Broadway rubbed their palms gleefully over the outcome of a tax "test case" decided last week in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Manhattan. Appellant was plump, dark Actor Sidney Blackmer. From his taxable income in 1927, Actor Blackmer had deducted $1,687.10 as money spent entertaining critics and influential acquaintances who might further his professional career. The Board of Tax Appeals had previously turned thumbs down on the deduction, just as it had last year when Mr. Blackmer's divorced wife Lenore Ulric claimed exemption for $11,130 worth of "donated favors" to "newspaper critics...
Expense items listed by Mr. Blackmer included $400 for a party for Writers Heywood Broun, Mark Hellinger, Laurence Stallings & others, a $25 treat for Atlanta "social leaders and clubwomen," $75 lavished on the French consul and others at Chicago, an unnamed sum spent on "Mr. & Mrs. Biddle" at Pinehurst, N. C. Host Blackmer also said he had cast a few croutons on the political waters of the nation's capital. "In Washington," he testified, 'T entertained almost every night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President...
Died. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, 56, Denver oilman and lawyer, U. S. Senator from Colorado during the last short-term session of Congress, onetime attorney for Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive Teapot Dome witness; of injuries suffered July 17 when he was struck by an automobile in Manhattan's Central Park; in a Manhattan hospital. Although he had a broken pelvis and internal injuries, he tried to refuse hospitalization after the accident, gave a fictitious name. No one suspected his identity until he disclosed it few days before his death in order to summon his wife...