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Hollywood, to whom such phenomena should be as interesting as a $1,000,000 bank balance to a Wall Street broker, remains as stubbornly unaware of Autry as other U. S. population centres. Autry pictures rarely play in major Los Angeles theatres, and Autry is seldom recognized on the rare occasions when he appears in public. Irritated by his obscurity, the cinema's most popular star draws attention to himself by wearing cowboy clothes off screen as well as on, has a special white gabardine cowboy suit for evening wear. He takes off his cowboy suits only...
...Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
...Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between a broker's indebtedness and working capital; 4) separation of brokerage and dealer capital; 5) all loans by members, unless fully secured, must be reported; 6) statements on underwriting position to be filed weekly; 7) a central depository to be set up to hold customers' funds now held by brokers...
...Astoria, L.I. at Eastern Service Studios, two new independent companies were hard at work on two new feature pictures for Paramount release. The companies: Odessco (for Odium Steele Co.), backed by Stanley Odium, son of Tycoon Floyd Odium; Triple A (for Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...
Undaunted, Jerry Cuppia kept demanding reform, joined forces with such men as Howard Sykes, independent broker, Henry C. Brunie of L. A. Mathey & Co., Theodore V. D. Berdell of Berdell Brothers. Eventually the Old Guard permitted the appointment of a committee to investigate reorganization. The hollowness of the committee's proposal was echoed by the silence with which SEC Chairman William O. Douglas met it. Furthermore, it outraged many a Curb member with the suggestion that any who also belonged to the Big Board or were associated with a member be penalized...