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...CASE OF MR. CRUMP-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2). A mismated musician...
...fees. A fallen gentleman, Mr. Still, is his able secretary. A charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post. After a certain number of months, of course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern advertising is rounded off by an amazing rise in the male birth rate and universal posthumous acclaim for Marcus Faithful, whose only private explanation is: "It must have...
...Equity Court of Richmond, however, Judge Beverley T. Crump recently decided against the suing preferred stockholders, on the grounds that preferred stockholders in the Southern have no fixed dividend chargeable on the road's annual earnings, and that therefore the Company is and has been free to pay or not to pay preferred dividends in its discretion, as long, of course, as common stockholders were not better treated...
...Little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy...
...until she found that her embryo novel was no more than a bundle of disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved Roy, but his environment proved too strong for her love. Finally there was Louis Bayard, cultured, a little dried up, in whose elegance she finally found comfort. Everywhere...