Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Steps Out (Columbia) is a Central European romp in which Soprano Grace Moore sings six songs from an old Fritz Kreisler operetta called Cissy. One of the songs, Madly in Love, became more celebrated than it deserved when Miss Moore, who sang it in peasant garb while milking a cow, flounced off the Columbia lot vowing never to return. Said she: "I don't mind milking a cow or two in the course of a day, but also to sing all day is something else again. I have another public besides that one out in Hollywood...
...South Central States marked an-other slump. Probable worst was Devil's Swamp by Oklahoma's Edith Mahier. Kentucky's Frank W. Long painted Singer Jack Niles with his dulcinet. There were plenty of portraits of pretty white women and brave white gentlemen...
Ablest, most vigorous painting in the show was in the North Central States section. Best known was Sleeping by Michigan's John Carroll. The model for this picture was Georgia Finckel, 27, whom Artist Carroll married last week in Columbus, Ohio. He called his frail, slant-eyed second wife the "inspiration" as well as the model for the murals he had just finished at Detroit's Institute of Arts...
...shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show. From Wall Street they summoned two new vice presidents, Robert W. Sinsabaugh, a onetime Central Hanover Bank & Trust official, and E. Thurston Clarke, head of the investment department of J. P. Morgan & Co. These two men were brought in to relieve Mr. Young of some of his responsibilities. When Mr. Young finally moved out, Mr. Clarke was popped into the firm's presidency...
...Harvard comes as a surprise to the great mass of the proletariat also lodged, for various reasons, in these same hallowed precincts. Especially does this failure take on rather a poignant note when it is remembered that fully 350 ardent undergraduates have expressed their zeal by registering with the central bureau in Washington, but have been stopped on the threshhold of a shining success by the lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness no prophet has arisen to lead the children...