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Philad's demand made beauty operators' hair stand right on end. A court test promptly was sought by the National Hairdressers' & Cosmetologists' Association (14,000 members), headed by able St. Louis Businesswoman Edna L. Emme. Miss Emme's claims: the croquignole process had been used in the U. S. before the Mayer patent; the patent was issued improperly; by purchasing machines from licensed manufacturers, the operators had bought the right to use the process anyway. At week's end, Judge Biggs took the case under advisement, started combing out the kinks...
From a $7.50-a-day extra Miss Rand worked up to a $750-a-week silent film ingenue. When 1929 took her savings she had earned $2,000 weekly in vaudeville. For Recovery she developed her illuminating fan dance. In 1933 and 1934 Businesswoman Beck grossed $6,000 a week (with outside engagements) at Chicago's Century of Progress. Thereafter it was all gravy: movies, contracts, $1,000-a-day appearances at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, $2,500-a-week unveilings at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant...
...Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact of 6,000 questions a week which pour in upon her from millions who have never seen Newport or Park Avenue...
Last week a Philadelphia businesswoman attempted suicide because of the Supreme Court's decision in the Schechter case...
...Lucy Sutherland) 71. famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile Ltd. (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt, first manikin show, first application of the word chic to clothes. A poor businesswoman, she once told a recorder in bankruptcy that she did not know what a share of stock...