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...character, brown eyes, and 34 in. bust." Only hitch in her quick rise was that Father Martin suddenly determined that she should finish her college course. When Heloise refused, he enlisted the aid of her friends Korman and Vallee (Yale '27) and with them engaged Heloise in a long-drawn argument. "Look at Katharine Hepburn," said Photographer Korman, "there was a girl with no looks but a college education and hasn't she made a success of herself?" Mr. Vallee assured her that a college education was an advantage in any profession. The result was that Heloise agreed...
...first of the double bill at Keith Memorial Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered...
...with silver-bearded Chairman Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., just as he got his great holding company, Consolidated Oil Corp., on shares with the Rockefellers in 1932. Oilman Sinclair's triumph was the acquisition of working control of Richfield Oil Co. in a reorganization whose long-drawn negotiations began as soon as Richfield went into receivership...
Night of January 16 (by Ayn Rand; A. H. Woods & Lee Shubert, producers) repeats the theatrical trick which, in The Trial of Mary Dugan, made Producer Woods a tidy fortune in 1927-28. A crime has been committed before the audience arrives, is thereafter unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named...
...That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing: he offered to accept $225,000 less and salvage some of his equipment. Bribery! yelled the Times's enemies. With the structure of its new home completed, the Times was faced with the possibility of another long-drawn condemnation proceeding. Nevertheless, canny Publisher Chandler served notice that he would not move until he knew who was going to pay how much, for what. Suddenly last month the City Council offered $1,193,345. Harry Chandler took it and moved...