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Lourdes, France, April 26--A hundred thousand pilgrims from all over the world joined today in a fervent prayer for peace...
Among a large group of brokers Mr. Whitney has inspired a fervent, devoted loyalty. They remember him as the man who led the Exchange through the worst years of the worst U. S. depression. Almost single-handed he directed the fight which resulted in the removal from the Stock Exchange Control Bill in Washington of most of its rawest and most of its unworkable provisions. And under him the Exchange got through its first year of Federal regulation without serious mishap. His friends believe the burly onetime Harvard oarsman made the best of a bad situation, that he has been...
Since this achievement could scarcely be considered a well-rounded evening's entertainment even by Crooner Vallee's most fervent admirers, Sweet Music contains other ingredients. The story investigates Skip Houston's mismanaged romance with a Chicago tap-dancer (Ann Dvorak). Through it scrambles a host of entertaining minor characters impersonated by a quorum of Warner Brothers' large roster of comedians, notably Ned Sparks, as the dancer's irascible manager, and Allen Jenkins, as Skip Houston's pressagent. Alice White, as a scatterbrained chorus girl, does the best acting in the picture. Of Sweet...
...Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities went dressed as circus performers, animals, ballet dancers, Spaniards, infants. When Depression smashed her husband's brokerage firm, Mrs. Wright turned her talents and reputation to moneymaking. Now fortyish and fervent, she directs a Monday afternoon radio variety hour, smokes large cigars, boasts of her collection of autographs ranging from that of "Johnnie" Pershing ("the General, you know") to those of "Cantor and the Divine Sarah...
...last week, Mrs. Henry Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett: "The egg was put here for some good reason. Why it was sent...