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Ratings was another prime topic oi conversation among last week's frolicking bond men. For many years banks buying bonds have generally relied on the ratings published by the four big statistical services-Standard Statistics, Moody's, Poor's and Fitch's.* In 1936 the Comptroller of the Currency made this custom a requirement in cases when bonds are of doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller...
Forgotten by one generation, this rollicking ballad of 1869 was revived for the next. In 1901 Charles Frohman produced Playwright Clyde Fitch's Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Female lead was pretty, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore in her first starring role. The characters whistled and sang the old ditty but audiences blithely believed that both the dandified captain and his "Horse Marines" were something cooked up for their special entertainment...
...amusing story by Helen Meinardi on which I Met Him in Paris is based, the Swiss interlude was a minor incident. Adroitly magnified in Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold...
...desirable post in the Protestant Episcopal Church is that of dean of a cathedral. Often ranking next to his bishop, a dean bears the title "Very Reverend," usually administers the cathedral, plans its services. For two decades a notable U. S. dean has been Very Rev. George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, onetime president of the Society of Deans of Cathedrals in America, associated with the "National" Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul in Washington, D. C. since it was in blueprints 40 years ago. Tall, shy, scholarly Dean Bratenahl knows more about cathedral traditions than anyone else...
...Sian official for Texas Co., one George Fitch, contributed to the dispute by arriving in Nanking to say that, so far as he knew, the persons principally concerned (Dictator Chiang, Mme Chiang, Brother Soong, Adviser Donald and the Young Marshal) got out of Sian only by a ruse in which they tricked General Yang Fu-cheng, whose troops had high-jacked the kidnapping. Oilman Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted...