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...music. By degrees his oldtime popularity returned to him. He was invited again to Weimar for a part of each year. Hungary formed an Academy of Music, put him in charge, greeted him so exuberantly that he played the piano for the populace from a balcony. Like an aged Byron he continued to have love affairs, during one of which he was almost shot. Finally in honor of his approaching 75th birthday he went on a final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited...
...shining stars adorn the family diadem of Walter P. Chrysler. Son-in-law Byron Cecil Foy, who married Mr. Chrysler's eldest daughter Thelma, is, at 40, president of Chrysler-owned De Soto Motor Corp., famed sponsor of its airflow models. Son-in-law Edgar William Garbisch, 32, a burly West Point footballer who married Mr. Chrysler's second daughter Bernice, went to work for J. Stirling Getchell, Inc., Manhattan advertising agency which handles most Chrysler advertising, startled himself and friends by bagging the huge Socony-Vacuum account. Last week Motormaker Chrysler's chunky, art-loving son Walter...
...Frisco (First National). By the time a newshawk and a cameraman discover the body in a rumble seat, enough has happened in this picture to suggest many a motive for murder. Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a moody socialite, addicted to thievery for fun. Daughter of a banker (Arthur Byron) whom she dislikes, she consorts with underworldlings, gets her name in gossip columns, disposes of stolen bonds through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy and mysterious stirrings...
Died. Dr. George Byron Roorbach, 55, professor (since 1919) in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration; adviser on foreign trade (since last month) to the U. S. State Department; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...romance of "dragging the pageant of a bleading heart across Europe," will out with Shelley and Byron. Here is the simple case of an elderly utilities man and holding company magnet who "hit for the boiler" when things began to get to warm. For all the court intrigues,Greek women, tramp steamers, (but not even an airplane) it is evident that Insull himself is not a romantic person, such as some old Stuart Pretender or Confederate General. It is probable that the sympathy which he is getting in Chicago marks the surfeit of investigations, mud-slinging threats, and big-banker...