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Nibley, daughter of U. S. Senator Reed Smoot of Nevada; on the ground of men tal cruelty; in Long Beach. Elected. Myron Charles Taylor, Manhattan capitalist (banks, railroads, insurance), finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; to be a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, succeeding the late Manhattan capitalist Ogden Mills. Reelected. John Jacob Raskob of Wilmington, Del., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer...
Short, stocky, genial, twinkly-eyed, Mr. Ungerleider makes many friends. The walls of his offices are crowded with autographed pictures of Congressmen, financiers, tycoons of one kind or another. A non-partisan in politics, he knows many a politician, spent much time on the long distance telephone during both the Kansas City and Houston nominating conventions. He does not, however, meet any of his friends on golf courses. Mr. Ungerleider never had a golf stick in his hand. And of this eccentricity he is extremely proud...
...that is, if a corporation bought 1,000 shares of stock instead of putting into the call money market $100,000 secured by those 1,000 shares) brokers' loans would diminish, the market would still be supported, and all would be well. But this solution remains impossible as long as the Reserve Board keeps threatening a collapse in security values. On this commodity inflation point, the dissenting banker would probably wonder how it was that money which would dangerously inflate commodities could be made so harmless, so innocent, when applied to Stock Market transactions...
...which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost of a long-dead lover. Actors from Dayton, Ohio, were concerned with Zanzibar. Three Manhattan companies dealt, respectively, with Japan, Petrograd, the Crystal Caverns...
From Forest Hills, Long Island, scene of many a tennis championship, came an unusually polished coterie, the Gardens Players, with Sir James Matthew Barrie's piquant thriller Shall We Join the Ladies? This play, long a favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine...