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From Fox Film Corp. last week resigned Courtland Smith, brother-in-law of Arthur Brisbane, founder and manager of Fox Movietone News, responsible for Manhattan's newsreel theatre, the Embassy. Called by Fox-President Harley L. Clarke "one of the outstanding figures in the motion picture industry" Cineman Smith will become president of Translux Movies Corp., two-weeks old organization...
Miss Yarrow's recovery made Dawson patients of Yarrow friends. The circle grew. Dr. Dawson became fashionable, a "Harley Street" practitioner, although his commodious, beautifully furnished home and office is in nearby Wimpole Street...
...counterpart of Harley Street. Nearest approximations.are Boston's Back Bay district and Washington's I ("Eye") Street. A Harley Street physician or surgeon always comports himself decorously, properly, ofttimes pompously. He has medical learning plus a general culture. (Lord Dawson knows his literature, from which he often quotes. Matthew Arnold is his favorite poet.) Harley Street patients rarely change their doctors. The doctor is part of the family organization. Harley Street men wear a sort of professional uniform. The present costume (Lord Dawson maintains his meticulously) consists of morning clothes- black shoes and socks, grey spats, striped trousers...
...remarkable convalescence under President Harley L. Clarke was shown by its earning $7,125,000 in the first six months, a 40% gain. Saying that earnings for the current half year will be even greater, President Clarke assured stock-holders that the $4 dividend is safe...
Said Prosecuting Attorney Harley Hardin, regarding court action against the perpetrators of Indiana's first lynching since 1902*: "The self-satisfaction of the people over the lynching is a psychological matter resting on dissatisfaction with verdicts returned by juries and the sentences imposed. The people feel that the only-way to get justice is to take the law into their own hands...