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...communist demands. Claudia Morgan is attractive and uneasy, and whether the uneasiness is in the actress or the character, it all contributes to the proper dramatic effect. A prominent background stands behind the picture of these fighters in the form of Alexander Woolcott, who as a cynical marriage broker contributes to the play what humor it has. Since the ill-fated girl is one of his proteges, she relapses at the end into the tutelage of this good-natured sophisticate...
...president, not necessarily a broker, would be hired by the Board of Governors, would have to divest himself of all other business interests, would have power to appoint, subject to approval by the board, all officers except the chairman and vice-chairman of the board...
...biggest grain-marketing co-operative in the U. S., is eight years old, has always been sickly. Last year it sold more than 66,000,000 bushels of grain for its members, but the only time it made any kind of profit was in 1931, when it was broker for the Grain Stabilization Corp., working for Herbert Hoover's Farm Board. A profit was such a remarkable thing for Farmers National that a few years later it was investigated by the Senate, with no particular result...
Married. Cecilia Hoyt De Mille Calvin, 29, daughter of Film Producer Cecil Blount De Mille; to Joseph W. Harper, 34, Manhattan and Hollywood publisher, who ushered at his fiancee's 1930 marriage to Broker Francis Calvin; in Kansas City...
...Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) inherited a tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West...