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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...bales with the proceeds of his gum sales in the South (TIME, April 13). Last week cotton hovered just above 6? per Ib., which meant that Gum Man Wrigley had so far sustained a 40% paper loss. But 6? cotton looked like a good investment to another Chicagoan. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr., president of Cudahy Packing Co. More cautious than Gum Man Wrigley, Meat Packer Cudahy announced that he would invest 10% of his company's Southern sales in cotton until $1,000,000 has thus been spent. At current prices a purchase of some 33,000 bales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Cotton's Week | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Created in the image of The New Yorker, five years ago The Chicagoan first appeared, drawing its inspiration from the East, its pocket money from the West. Publisher was Martin Quigley, a hardworking, red-headed newspaper man who had made enough money out of cinema trade magazines (Motion Picture Almanac, Herald and Daily, Better Theatres, Hollywood Herald) to take up polo. First issues reminded readers not so much of The New Yorker as of an imitation of a college funnypaper imitating The New Yorker. But the magazine improved with age, reported the local drama, sport, social goings-on with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bigger Chicagoan | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite-sent in some travel notes from Italy. Helen Young wrote a page of tittle-tattle. She is society editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner. William Randolph Weaver, younger brother of Poet John Van Alstyn Weaver (In American) and the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bigger Chicagoan | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Maestro Giorgio Polacco the Chicago Civic Opera had from 1920 until last year an able musical director. But many a Chicagoan believed that the Company's activities-the long-delayed premiere of Hamilton Forrest's Camille, for example-were hampered by Maestro Polacco's domestic difficulties with his wife. Edith Mason, an excellent soprano. Married twice before, Soprano Mason became his wife in 1919, divorced him in 1928 charging cruelty. "This," he said, "is certainly a dreadful blow to me." Then she married Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein. Chicago surgeon. Last October it was made known she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vice Presidents for Opera | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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