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...intention of the Robert Gair Co. to merge with the Container Corp. of America or to participate in the formation of a holding company with this or any other corporation. The bland hints as to the fatalistic attractions of this "splendid couple" are significant of absolutely nothing more than that the old "matchmakers" of Wall Street are again tickling public susceptibilities with romance...
...were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre supported by Capitalist Otto H. Kahn. Last February the New Playwrights gave a dinner, invited Maecenas Kahn, made many speeches attacking capitalism, prophesying the triumph of the workers. Banker Kahn, bland, smiling, replied in the best speech of the evening. Intimated he: I give my money gladly to artistic experiments, am willing to take a chance on thereby upsetting the social order...
Following this the Choral Society will sing two songs from Shakespeare--"Full Fathom Five" by John Ireland and "It was a Lover and His Lass" by H. Vaughan Williams; "Cherry Stones" by the Marquis of Bland ford; and "Follow Me Down to Carlow", an Irish folk song...
...Author. Emil Ludwig, indefatigable reporter of late great lives, was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1881, of Jewish parents. His father was a famed ophthalmologist. Stocky, long-haired; smooth, long, plump of face, bland of smile, his dark eyes have a Rudy Vallee droop. In law, then business, till he was 25, he took up journalism in 1914. Say his detractors: he is still at it. Says he: "I detest the historical novel. It perverts both history and fiction. My ideal is a portrait of unimpeachable documentary veracity, which at the same time is suggestive of a story." Author Ludwig...
...them hospitable Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands had carpenters knock together a huge round table in what is ordinarily the lower house of the Dutch Parliament. A little hasty, a little crude were these arrangements, for the lower house had just risen a few days before. But a big, bland tablecloth covered chinks and splinters, was only a little lumpy. Eyeing each other shrewdly sat the two young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius Curtius, successor to the late great Dr. Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister of the German Republic...