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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Edward Codrington Carrington, Maryland Republican, chairman of the Hudson River Navigating Corp. Reason: Waterway policy...
Died. James Bowron, 84, chairman, acting president & director of the Gulf States Steel Corp., potent steel entrepreneur in Alabama; of heart disease; in Birmingham...
Irving Berlin's deal was with United Artists Corp., to write a musical revue based on "Say it with Music," popular song of his first Music Box Revue (1921). Associate producer is to be George White (Scandals), who last week declared that he was quitting the stage for sound-pictures. So the genre of the proposed Berlin work is obvious, quite like the music of The Cocoanuts, which he composed for the four Marx brothers and the Follies of 1927, which he made for Florenz Ziegfeld. How much Composer Berlin will get for this work neither he nor President...
...Case Corp. (makers of Movietone) three weeks ago offered George Gershwin tens of thousands to let them use his tiresomely admired "Rhapsody in Blue" and to write incidental cinema music for them. He was cagey about terms and coy about the picture work. Although he publicly declared that he would not write music for the cinema, last week he was still considering Fox offers...
Chain Stores. To the McCrory Stores Corp., operating 199 stores (Five and Ten Cent), came the 1-year-old Swingle's 5 Cent to $1 Stores, Inc., with 15 stores; 1927 sales...