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Back Door to Heaven (Odessco Productions, Paramount release) is an awkward attempt to crash the back door of the cinema industry. It is notable as the first effort of a new producing company headed by Bernard Steele and Stanley Odium (son of Investment Truster Floyd Bostwick Odium, whose Atlas Corp. has a large stake in Radio-Keith-Orpheum and who reportedly put up part of the $350,000 it cost to make the picture in Astoria...
Then the Citizen opened fire on a 55-year-old probate judge named Homer Bostwick, accused him of blackmailing a 24-year-old girl into returning such gifts as a diamond ring, an automobile. Judge Bostwick was a friend of Harry Wolfe, who defended him vigorously in the Dispatch...
When the Citizen forced Judge Bostwick off the bench, Publisher Wolfe was so hopping mad he slashed the price of the Dispatch to 1?. It is still there, one of the few remaining penny papers in America. The Citizen stayed at 2?, has some 80,000 circulation (Dispatch: 168,000). Scripps officials believe their new Sunday paper will make money, insist the Wolfes' retaliation will be a boomerang. Said one Scripps spokesman: "They are only cutting their own throats...
...Mother of Polo Players A. C., Dunbar and George H. ("Pete") Bostwick...
Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...