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GETTING ALONG TOGETHER-Marjorie D. Kern-McBride...
Judge Cosgrave presently ruled upon the whole question of the suit: Had Herbert Fleishhacker damaged certain Lazard Freres heirs by selling certain oil lands belonging to them in Kern County, Calif, in 1915-17 for too cheap a price? Deciding that the answer was Yes, Judge Cosgrave ordered Herbert Fleishhacker to pay damages of $300,000. He then sent compliments to Lawyer Neylan for his handling of the case. Comparing himself to Emile Zola defending Dreyfus, Lawyer Neylan stormed back: "I am serving notice now on all those behind the present litigation against Mr. Fleishhacker that I am going...
...suits are not ended was evident also in another quarter, Los Angeles, where the same group of angry Lazard Freres heirs is suing Banker Fleishhacker. the Anglo Bank and others for $1,250,000 damages from the sale in 1915-17 of the Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never in any manner, shape...
That is the keynote of Duke Ellington's attitude towards his work. He is deeply absorbed in it, much more involved in his life-work, music, than other musicians of his type. For his favorite writer is the late English composer, Delius, while he prefers Gershwin's and Kern's music among the popular melodies. Also, he has made an extensive study of American negro music, such as spirituals...
...getting plenty of bum, handmade music is the delighted conviction of many a pragmatic U. S. maker of musical instruments, for sales have risen sharply in the past two years. This week, in a book called A Little Night Music,* a plea was entered not for more Gershwin and Kern on home saxophones, but for more bum Brahms and Beethoven, played by groups of amateurs on their flutes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos. Its author is Gerald White Johnson, editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull...