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Rose of the Rancho (Paramount). As a vehicle for the cinema debut of Contralto Gladys Swarthout, a revival of David Belasco's famed stage success recommended itself for obvious reasons. Born of U. S. parents and reared in Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera...
...York, a sister who teaches singing, a husband, Frank Chapman Jr., son of the American Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman's great-great-grandfather, and the smell of lilacs which Gladys Swarthout likes so much that...
...secondhand, may have to compete with syndicated columnists on his own page, usually sees his big local business stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...
...news, Editor Smith often in demand as a speaker and lecturer. Probably read in more corners of the earth than any other U. S. financial editor is the Christian Science Monitor s learned Herbert Berridge Elliston, whose column "The World's Business," appears three times per week. British-born, he was the Manchester Guardian s Far Eastern correspondent for several years, late: served as an economic adviser to the Chinese Government...
...often allots one-fourth of its entire editorial space to business news. The Times' financial editor is Alexander Dana Noyes. His job, however, does not give him his unchallenged position as dean of financial writers. In years, as in wisdom, he stands apart from and above his colleagues. Born the year that Farragut took New Orleans, he learned about the Panic of 1873 first-hand from his merchant father. He was only a year out of Amherst and just breaking in as a Wall Street cub when the Panic of 1884 struck. By the Panic...