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...dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs him off to the lot, dies com- fortably while watching him do an honest buck & wing in the family tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...Railways. His U. S. past and the "Bill" by which everyone called him was glossed over in official statements mentioning that he had really been born in Russia, that his real name contained no "Bill" but is Vladimir Sergeyevich Shatov. "We'll show the world," cried Vice-Com-missar Shatov, "what railway-building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Fall of Big Bill | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...liability. Many a bank has refused to sell bonds ex cept over the counter in its own office, refused to give any information about them by mail. Blyth & Co.. in selling 147,500 shares of Kingsbury Breweries Co.; Manitowoc, Wis., issued a prospectus giving the com pany's earnings for May as $107,719 but added: "It should be recognized that the present margin of profit . . . is unusually large . . . to that extent the earnings during this period should not be used as an indication of what may conservatively be expected subsequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Liability at Large | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...cradle days. Opera at the Hippo drome is the venture of two hard-headed theatre men who care nothing about music. But a few years ago when Cecil E. Mayberry was managing a movie house in Chicago he became interested in the money troubles of the Civic Opera Com pany, blamed the high admissions. He and William A. Carroll, who has run hotels and furniture stores in the Midwest, went to New York to put on cheap movies in the giant Hippodrome. This spring they fell in with Alfredo Salmaggi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Pays | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Passed a Senate bill providing for a Federal railroad coordinator, repeal of the recapture clause, a new rate-making basis and I. C. C. control of holding com-panies; sent it to conference. ¶ Adopted (177-10-54) a resolution to investigate the Civil Service Commission's apportionment of jobs on the basis of State populations, as required by law. ¶ Passed a Senate bill creating a Federal Employment Service with an office in every State and appropriating $17,500,000 for its operation over five years; sent it to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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