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...second classic example of banker-management was rehashed in the St. Louis-San Francisco bankruptcy hearing in Manhattan. Late in 1925 Frisco's Edward Norphlet Brown, alarmed over the "strategic" situation in his territory, proposed to his bankers that they purchase working control of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, whose 8,330 miles of line far exceeded Frisco's 5,859 miles. For James ("Jimmy") Speyer, the shrewd, dapper, little 73-year-old banker who, for all practical purposes, is Speyer & Co., that deal proved highly profitable. From commissions and the firm's own speculative commitments, Speyer...
...Carey's incompetence and delay. They also petitioned the line to be removed from his command. Sailing back to San Francisco, the line's headquarters, Captain Carey observed: "I took it on the chin here in New York, but they'll get theirs in 'Frisco...
...rating. They represent a class whose songs are most actively played today, receive in copyright royalties between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. There is an honorary Permanent Class A for good writers who are no longer producing songs. Such a songwriter is Gene Buck ("Tulip Time," "Hello Frisco") who gets about $2,500 for his rating but is reported to make $25,000 as the society's president. Ratings go as low as 4. Last year A. S. C. A. & P. collected about $2,000,000 which it prorated among its members. Most of that...
...Immoral and indecent" were The Life of Vergie Winters, Side Streets, Dr. Monica, Road to Ruin, Little Man, What Now?, Born to Be Bad, Girls for Sale, Manhattan Melodrama, Wharf Angel, Merry Wives of Reno, Notorious but Nice, Finishing School, Sisters Under the Skin, Sadie McKee, Fog Over Frisco...
Brisk to the point of confession, Fog Over Frisco is not the best of Director William Dieterle's pictures. Typical shot: Bette Davis begging her anxious fiance to tolerate just one more swindle...