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...stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired. It has had a long day, and deserves a rest. When it first appeared on Broadway 16 years ago, it was an exciting, hard-hitting, accurate drama of Manhattan speakeasy days. Producer Jed Harris, co-author Philip Dunning, co-author-director George Abbott rode it to a standstill: at one time eight road companies were playing to standing room only. Now it is a worn period piece. The story, about a small-time hoofer (George Raft) and his partner (Janet Blair) and their hope...
...drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross's work was conventional. It had some of the dashing draughtsmanship, little of the nutty imagination shown in his comic strippery. Five drawings were sold. The buyers: Cinemactors Charles Laughton and Thomas Mitchell, Producer Jed Harris...
Married. Broadway Producer Jed Harris, 41 (Broadway, The Front Page, Our Town); and Actress Louise Platt, 25; he for the second time; in Juarez, Mexico...
...this remarkable comeback, credit belongs chiefly to two men. One is deep-voiced, bushy-browed William Jed Wardall, former investment banker (Bonbright & Co.) who became trustee of the McKesson reorganization. The McKesson reorganization was the first big case under the new Chandler Act (Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act), and was therefore watched closely by lawyers as a test of the new law, which is designed to hasten reorganizations under the eye of SEC. Last week, the McKesson reorganization looked like a distinct legal success. The amended trustee's plan was submitted to the court on Jan. 27, agreed...
...that's the best-run department in the business." Wrote Coster to Price, Waterhouse in 1936: ". . . Only in auditing [has] our company really got its money's worth." During the two years since McKesson's receivership and Coster's suicide, McKesson (under Trustee William Jed Wardall) has made gradual progress toward reorganization. One of Trustee Wardall's jobs is to recover assets; one source of recoveries was Coster's board of directors, who gave him enough votes of confidence to expose themselves to charges of negligence. To date, Trustee Wardall has negotiated...