Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's dapper little Karl William Zoeller is an advertiser with shrewd understanding of the heartier elements in human nature. Last week, as director of the Institute of American Sporting Art, Inc., he staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them...
...July he decided to put into a voting trust his 95% stock control of American Newspapers, Inc., top holding company in the bewildering Hearst corporative pyramid. In September Lawyer Clarence John Shearn was given full and irrevocable power to vote Mr. Hearst's stock for ten years. Mr. Hearst retained only his right to earnings and editorial control over 19 Hearst daily newspapers and twelve magazines...
...group, re-enters the theatre after dramatically forswearing it when two of his plays were panned in the fall of 1934. At that time Rice called first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," characterized a Manhattan critic as "a senile alcoholic." Before his sputtering exit, Elmer Rice, Inc. had produced six plays, one of which (Counsellor-at-Law) was successful enough to give him a huge profit...
...group may also recall that in 1923 six prominent playwrights, among them Owen Davis and Edward Childs Carpenter, set up in business for themselves, as Dramatists' Theatre, Inc. Two-and-a-half years later Dramatists' Theatre, Inc. quietly folded...
Eloped. Joseph White Wilshire III, 23, son of the president of Standard Brands Inc.; with Anna Falck, 22, niece of Standard Brands's Vice President Paul W. Fleischmann; to Elkton, Md. Young Wilshire, whose hobby is driving his own fire engine, was received by his family after the elopement with open arms. "She is," they said, "an utterly delightful girl...