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While Premier Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
Perky, wiry Theodore Metz, 87, occupies a desk in the Manhattan offices of Edward B. Marks Music Corp. He speaks with a thick German accent, looks like an oldtime German music master with his white mustache, flowing necktie and fusty frock coat. Puttering about in the music business, Theodore Metz began last week to celebrate-a little ahead of time-the 50th anniversary of the composition of his No. 1 song, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...when the average German thinks of the average Englishman he does not think of Mr. Baldwin in the very least. Still less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever...
...Frock-Coated Communism? Socialistic implications of the New Deal power program so alarmed Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that he was moved to ask: "Are we guarding the back door against bewhiskered aliens with bombs and torches and at the same time inviting Communism in the front door dressed up in top hat and frock coat?" When the editor of the Chamber of Commerce's houseorgan demanded the return of the "old order," powermen leaped cheering to their feet...
Bought and paid for by the Duke Endowment, a loft. bronze statue stood last week in the Manhattan studio of Sculptor Charles Keck. It shows the late, great Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke in frock coat, baggy trousers, clodhoppers. In his right hand is a cane; in his left, a cigar...