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...Worthy Compeer," Most cheerful events in Japan's capital last week was the farewell round of banquets to William Cameron Forbes, soon to be succeeded as U. S. Ambassador in Tokyo by Joseph Clark Grew, a cousin by marriage of John P. Morgan...
...Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers...
Wake Up and Dream. Charles B. Cochran, the British Ziegfeld, is quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer. The music, for instance, which accompanies his latest revue is by a trio consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel...
...financial compeer, John Davison Rockefeller Sr., was 87 years old last week...
...point of, and that by a firm (Dodge) into whose product there has never gone anything but high-grade material and workmanship. The Chevrolet Co. planned to spend half a million just on speeding up its distribution. Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year...