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Prettily dimpled, with a mature lyric soprano voice that made her a sensation on the radio when she sang on Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded...
...same week he bought his son's present, Broker Meehan received a present from the Securities & Exchange Commission in the form of a summons to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. stock exchanges for alleged manipulation of Bellanca Aircraft stock. Hotly denying that he had been jiggling Bellanca or any other stock, Broker Meehan prepared to defend himself...
...Broker Meehan had plenty of time to brood upon his case before the SEC's hearing got under way. Then last spring in the middle of the proceedings his attorney had to announce: "It is unfortunate that Mr. Meehan cannot take the stand in his own defense . . . his doctors inform me . . . that the state of his health is such that it is impossible for him to appear. I understand that the Commission's doctor ... is of similar opinion." Broker Meehan dropped from the news, and the Meehan case, still undecided, dragged on without...
...that Mr. Meehan, far from recovering after his preliminary bout with SEC, had been confined since last August to Bloomingdale Hospital, a sanatorium near Manhattan for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. On the application of his wife and the advice of two alienists, the 42-year-old broker had been committed by New York Supreme Court Justice William F. Bleakley just before that jurist accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York...
...Among Broker Meehan's friends it was said that the SEC challenge had been a "heartbreaking" experience...