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...learn the business. In 1937 he took the plunge, paid $500,000 for a lease on Chicago's bankrupt Drake. He liked the water fine. In rapid succession he bought Chicago's Blackstone, Los Angeles' Town House (later sold for $100,000 profit), Manhattan's Gotham...
...York has a score of emporiums devoted to running off old films, and frankly calling them "revivals." Since Boston's Fine Arts theatre closed last spring, the Hub has had nothing congenerous to the Gotham galaxy; yet old movies can be seen here, too. The trouble is, Boston's entertainment entreprencur's keep trying to put something over on the moviegoers...
Certainly 1945's biggest would be remembered long after such lists as 1938's, which included Douglas Corrigan's Wrong-Way flight, a man leaping from Manhattan's Hotel Gotham...
Caught in the act was arch Aiken, the Virginia playboy, who spent a vigilant week-end watching and waiting for Humph Bogart and Lauren Bacall to check in at the Gotham, Arch's big-town hang-out. His patience was not rewarded and friend Aiken had ot settle with a train ride confab with his fellow UVA man, T. B. Perry, 3rd. Old Neil Summers carrot-thatched New Yorker, found the rails a little too boresome and took to the air this week. The result was near disaster, but "Corney" promises better results in the future...
...good word that Cecil Rhodes' weekly companion on his journeys to New York is none other than the famed Count de Wright. "Junior" is said to have found his love in Gotham...