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Beginning March 2, and running for one week, the Metropolitan offers "Mandalay" with Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, and Kay Francis. On the stage is the Scott Furrier fashion show and Will Mahoney of the "Vanities". The story, which is laid in Rangoorf forms a romantic setting for the striking beauty of Miss Francis...
...Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength of his success in the Kelley case, was given an inside track on the kidnap case of Alexander Berg, well-to-do fur dealer. Four days, six hours after the furrier's abduction newsmen were handed copies of the following statement by the Berg lawyer, Morris G. Levinson...
Fourteenth kidnaping in St. Louis in two years, the abduction of Furrier Berg was one of the most brazen. It occurred on busy Lindell Boulevard in heavy traffic while Mr. Berg's Negro chauffeur was driving him home from the office. As the car slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series...
...diplomatic service. 8: electrical engineering, 8: ministry. 6: architecture, 4; aeronautics, 3: mechanical engineering, 3: naturalism, 3: writing, 3: research science. 3; civil engineering, 2: dentistry, 2; dramatics, 2: traffic regulation. 1: mining, 1: literature. 1: music, 1: finance and economics. 1; restaurant equipment, 1: geophysicist, 1: sociologist, 1: furrier, 1: artist, 1: transportation, 1: politics, 1; ornithology, 1: medical research, 1; radio engineering, 1: meteorologist, 1; manufacturer of nautical instruments...
...owned more New York City real estate than any other one person?something in the vicinity of $60,000,000 worth ?a fortune founded in the fur business (and, says legend, in Captain Kidd's treasure; by the first John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Another oldtime furrier was one John Gottlieb Wendel, who retired about the same time as John Jacob Astor and who, like Astor, put his money into Manhattan realty. Last week died Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, next to last of seven grandchildren of John Wendel. Miss Ella Wendel, the surviving sister, remained sole owner of realty...