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...months after he left Cambridge, Johnny Green tried dutifully to be a stock broker's clerk. Then he took a $60-a-week job with Paramount Publix, which led to ghosting at the piano, orchestrating Maurice Chevalier's Big Pond, synchronizing shorts. Five years have obliterated his Harvard stamp. He chews gum, wears tan spats, pin-checked suits, hires a trainer to pummel him every morning so that he will appear dapper when he gets chances to conduct in cinemansions. Johnny Green's bathroom is his pride. It is papered with the covers of the 15 songs...
...While he is away at a houseparty, up bobs Otto, fresh from a voyage on a tramp steamer. "The circle has turned," says he, "and it's my turn now." But next morning Gilda leaves notes for both her lovers, goes off to Manhattan to marry an art broker and find, she hopes, peace. When Leo and Otto meet and read their letters they collapse into mutually brandied bathos...
...party Leo and Otto appear, identically and immaculately clad in faultless evening dress. They have, it seems, been traveling. "You must forgive our clothes," says urbane Leo. "We just got off a freight boat." Soon the safely married Gilda succumbs to their witty charms, and when the art broker-husband returns from Chicago he is told that the three will resume their private offensive against the social code. While he expostulates against the madness of this incorrigible trio they slap their thighs with mirth. The curtain falls, the play having evidently solved all but the practical difficulty of how Gilda...
Sued. James Alexander Stillman one-time president of Manhattan's National City Bank; by one Luc Rochefort. one-time Montreal broker; for a reported $1.000.000 for alienating the affections of Marjorie Baker Rochefort, separated wife, in Manhattan...
Curtis Bean Doll, son-in-law of Presi-dent-elect Roosevelt, resigned his partnership in the New York Stock Exchange firm of Goodbody & Co., announced he would become an independent broker with an office at E. F. Hutton...