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Hold Your Man (MGM). Jean Harlow is the pattern for every U. S. dance hall hostess whose hair responds to dye. Clark Gable is the apotheosis of the heel.* They therefore constitute an ideal starring team for a picture, of which the aim is to romanticize the love life of a Brooklyn strumpet and a petty thief...
Lips. The Hahn lady's lips are red with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back...
...month ago the New York Stock Exchange discovered that of the $92,000,000, "U. S. Government and other marketable securities," which Allied Chemical & Dye put down in a lump sum among "current" assets on its balance sheet, the largest part consisted of the company's own stock. Forthwith the Exchange ordered Allied stock be stricken from trading on Aug. 23, if in the meantime Allied did not give its stockholders more & better information. A grave defeat was this for Orlando Franklin Weber, autocrat of Allied, who for a full year had urbanely held the Exchange's Listing...
...obtain from U. S. investors $40,000,000, "largely for the purpose of building European chemical plants which compete with your company in the markets of the world." This charge depends upon a fact: that the late great British Sir Alfred Mond had a large block of Allied Chemical & Dye stock; and upon a theory: that he needed money to complete the great plants of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. and could get it only by selling the stock to Solvay American Investment Corp. which bought it after raising the necessary capital...
...offending concern indifferently shrugged its shoulders, the plain implication being that Mr. Whitney would do well to mind his own business. Last week such reactions underwent a violent change. For Mr. Whitney, upon recommendation of the List Committee, had ordered that the common and preferred stock of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. be stricken from the trading list as of August 23. This meant that Mr. Whitney's fellow-stock-brokers could no longer make money in the sales of Allied's millions of shares of preferred and common...