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...include Sewell L. Avery (U. S. Gypsum), Edward F. Carry (Pullman Co.), Robert P. Lament (American Steel Foundries), George A. Ranney (International Harvester), B. A. Eckhart (Eckhart Milling Co.). The new corporation will function under one of those broadminded charters which have made the State of Delaware a financial Gretna Green. Chicago Corp.'s directorate will be virtually unrestricted in its choice of investment fields...
...opening night of The Singing Fool Broadwayfarers buzzed with the rumor that Jolson would wed Ruby Keeler.* This Jolson vehemently denied. Two days later Jolson gave the little girl his hand at Port Chester. N. Y., metropolitan Gretna Green. It was Jolson's third wedding, Ruby Keeler's first...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...bank finally came into possession of the Earls of Jersey through two elopements. The tenth Earl of Westmoreland ran away with Banker Child's daughter, married at Gretna Green and inherited the bank. Their daughter followed suit by eloping with the young Earl of Jersey, and ever since the family has had a dominant interest in Child & Co. The eighth Earl of Jersey, who died last December, was its senior partner, and in accordance with his will the venerable institution will be absorbed by the larger private bank of Glyn, Mills...
...balloon fight between two large teams, on both of which were University men, was won by the "Red" team. Other University men not affiliated with the R. O. T. C. to place well were W. H. Forbes '23, and R. G. Hooker '23, first and second respectively in the Gretna Green, and H. A. Robey 1GB and C. A. Page 1GB, who placed second in the obstacle race...