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Last week the book department of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, leased by the Doubleday-Doran Book Shops, Inc., stopped displaying Mrs. Eddy. Simultaneously The New Republic, Manhattan liberal weekly, appeared with an article by Newspaperman Craig F. Thompson of the New York World, entitled "The Christian Science Censorship." Said Newspaperman Thompson: "The Church maintains in every state . . . a Committee on Publication . . . 'to correct in a Christian manner injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort...
Radio Corp. of America owns or has virtual controlling interest in RCA Communications, Inc. and Radiomarine Corp. (communications), RCA Photophone Co. (sound-film recording and receiving equipment), Radio-Victor Corp. (radio sets and talking machines), Radio-Keith Orpheum Corp. (vaudeville circuits and theatres), RKO Productions, Inc. (cinema production), National Broadcasting Co. (broadcasting). Recently it acquired an option on the patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting...
...more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal, Inc., and began to build six small warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence...
Penney Dairy. Pig-raising was the first, Penney Stores the most profitable, of the business ventures of James Cash Penney. Famed as a livestock breeder, Mr. Penney includes as diversion large scale, scientific farming. Biggest of his farming projects is Foremost Dairy Products, Inc., organized last March, operating in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia. Last week the Penney herds expanded westward when Foremost merged with Southwest Dairy Products Co., which serves 120,000 square miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Annual sales volume of the new company will exceed...
...Mendel, Inc. This shenanigan about a Jewish plumber who invents a machine which will fulfill all the impersonal obligations of a housewife, has an expert Kosher trio in Joe Smith, Charles Dale and Alexander Carr (who used to play Perlmutter to Barney Bernard's Potash). Such guffaws do they elicit that cautious critics murmurously compare the play to Abie's Irish Rose...