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...than the article in Fortune which suggested it to Producer Walter Wanger is not the fault of Actor Boyer. He functions with his usual skill, contrives to make Dmitri that most familiar of cinema anomalies, a plausible individual surrounded by implausible events. Good shot : the board room of a broker's office with customers in evening dress waiting for the market to open in New York...
...Philadelphia lightweight, to be his trainer. For his first professional fight, in Chicago's Bacon's Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout he got $44,600, of which Manager Roxborough and his partner, a Chicago Negro real-estate broker named Julian Black, get one-third. In his first professional fight, Louis knocked out a third-rater named Jack Kracken in the first round. Since then, he has had 21 fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds...
Married. Renée Wilcox Baruch, 29, younger daughter of financier Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch; and Henry Robert Samstag, Manhattan broker; in Manhattan...
Died. Edson Bradley, 83, retired broker and distiller; after long illness (pneumonia); in London. Broker Bradley entered the whiskey business as a young man at Frankfort, Ky., was president of the "Whiskey Trust" for twelve years. Famed Bradley brands: Old Crow, Old Hermitage. No less famed was the Bradley mansion in Washington, with its 500-seat theatre, known as Aladdin's Palace. Tiring of Washington, Distiller Bradley had his home moved stone by stone to Newport...
Married. Katrina McCormick, daughter of Mrs. Albert Gallatin Simms and the late U. S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois, granddaughter of the late great Mark Hanna; and Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Jr., Manhattan broker; in Washington...