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...illegitimate daughter, when she hears the story, rebels against her mother, forswears love, goes to China to do mission work. At the end she runs away from the mission school with Paul Lukas. As both mother and daughter Ruth Chatterton is skilfully but unconvincingly theatrical. Best shot: Naomi Kellogg (Ruth Chatterton at 45) on her deathbed...
...quirk in the culture of the Kellogg family is this: Both brothers have created long-enduring benefactions; yet when they were young children their parents did not want them to go to school. The parents believed schooling was unnecessary because they were morally sure the world then (about 65 years ago) was going...
...Brothers Kellogg have long disagreed on the immediate use of wealth. Nearly 30 years ago John Harvey invented a precooked breakfast food. The brothers manufactured it together. When its sales earned them big money, Dr. John Harvey insisted on spending the money on sociological activities-child welfare, public health, race improvement. Will Keith insisted on letting the business amass a fortune before giving the money away. His viewpoint was that business should be the benefactor of society. His brother's view was that business should be the servant of society. Their ultimate purpose was the same-giving away their...
...John Harvey made himself more famed than his business (the Sanitarium) and his benefactions. Brother Will Keith made his business (Kellogg Co.) more famed than himself. The public knows practically nothing about him. Employes of the Kellogg Company have stern orders against exploiting him. Servants of the Kellogg Inn at Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian...
...bought a farm on a lake not far from Battle Creek to make a summer home for underprivileged children. For the same sort of children he is helping Battle Creek build a $500,000 Ann J. Kellogg school (Ann Jeanette Kellogg was his mother). Early in October before President Hoover roused the country for unemployment help, he put his Battle Creek factory on a five-day-a-week basis to employ 300 more men. The factory has been running 24 hours a day, in three eight-hour shifts, for 2,500 employes. Last fortnight he altered his factory schedule again...