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After quizzing the Browne servants, last week Sleuth Scaffa bee-lined for Manhattan's Hotel Montclair. There he uncovered the thief and gave Mrs. Browne a nasty shock. The culprit was one of her best friends, Mrs. Whitney Endt, 28, wife of an insurance broker, future heiress to a comfortable fortune, often a welcome guest in the Browne home. Mrs. Endt, who recently lost a child and suffered injuries in a motor wreck, weepingly promised to redeem the $2,000 worth of jewels from pawnbrokers. Police opinion: kleptomania...
...oldsters were retired Broker Alan Ramsay Hawley, a round-faced, grey-haired gentleman who won the International in 1910; and famed old Aeronaut-Poet Augustus Post, an arresting figure of lordly carriage, with grey trowel beard, curling mustaches and somewhat rambling speech. He was Mr. Hawley's co-pilot on the 1910 flight in which they made an unofficial distance record which has never been surpassed-1,172 mi. Other oldtimers. proud of their kinship in the venerable clan of ballooning, came to congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced...
...Successful Calamity (Warner Bros.), cinematized for George Arliss, is neatly based on Clare Kummer's demoded "situation'' play of misunderstandings, tricks, plots and counterplots. George Arliss is a famed Wall Street broker, important enough to be congratulated by the President of the U. S. (shown anonymously from behind). Lonely for his wife (Mary Astor), son and daughter, he learns from his butler (Grant Mitchell) that ''the poor don't get to go much." He interrupts his family's frivolings with polo and pianists by pretending that he is ruined. They stay home with him and have a lovely time...
...last stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider with No. 13 on his saddle cloth, that nosed ahead three-fourths of a length to win the first prize of $88,690. Owned by Lee Rosenberg, a Manhattan cotton broker little known to turfmen, Kerry Patch is not particularly well-bred, had been conspicuously unsuccessful this year...
...post he accepted when his system crashed (TIME, April 25) and from which he supposedly resigned (TIME, June 13). The company's bankers and Judge Walter C. Lindley had learned that while Martin Insull was in Indiana visiting his daughter he received a $170,000 margin call from a broker. Samuel Insull met it out of Mississippi Valley Utilities funds. Martin Insull later gave a personal note for the amount, borrowed $66,000 more from the company. The company advanced $261,000 to other persons, mostly to enable them to buy Insull securities...