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...forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
...topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein's monster wil again appear for Universal in The Bride of Frankenstein. Universal distributors last week were told that "the mere thought of the monster seeking a bride makes £ showman's fingers fairly itch." A classic with catholic tastes...
...slight increase over last year. As usual, furniture, sculpture, silver, porcelains, enamels, tapestries and laces accounted for the most money: $2,021,567. Paintings brought $685,475; books and autographs. $644,689.50. Most famed collections dispersed were those of Thomas Fortune Ryan ($409,354), Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick ($330.617), Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ($116,015) (TIME, Dec. 4; Jan. 15; May 14). The late Mrs. Benjamin Stern's library and 18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank...
...Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. New Jersey College for Women (New Brunswick, N.J.) Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . D.F.A Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Dean Luther Allen Weigle of Yale Divinity School . . . . . . . . . S.T.D. Roanoke College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate of Transportation Joseph B. Eastman . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Livingston Farrand of Cornell...
...reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium; in 1919. Ambassador. He was credited with saving many a Belgian life by persuading Brussels not to resist Germany's Wartime invasion, gained fame by his efforts to stay the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell...