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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Depression. Douglas Fairbanks (whose Private Life of Don Juan had its London première last month), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Ratoff, are a few of the Hollywood celebrities who are making pictures in England. Last week John Barrymore signed a contract with London Film Productions, Ltd. to act in an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, directed by Alexander Korda (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Most potent of British producing companies. which are currently paying 25% higher salaries than Hollywood, is Gaumont-British. Last week this concern announced its plans to invade the U. S. market by supplementing...
...that du Pont lobbyists in Washington had worked hard and fast to block action on the House resolution providing U. S. cooperation in a general arms embargo on warring nations. And the du Fonts, it quickly developed, had a fine working agreement with the great British Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. to divide territories and profits for the sale of military explosives and other chemicals. How effectively this agreement worked was shown by a letter from the du Pont agent in South America, one N. E. Bates Jr., to I. C. I. in which he pointed out that the Roosevelt embargo...
Died. Frederick Craufurd Goodenough, 68, chairman of Britain's Barclays Bank, Ltd., onetime chairman of the London Bankers Clearing House; following a long illness; in London...
...Alexandrovna Youssoupov and her husband Prince Felix were guests of honor at a bright little dinner party to which were invited Gertrude Lawrence, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James J. Walker. The dinner was to celebrate an occasion. The Princess had just received from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Ltd. a check for the largest libel settlement ever made. Though only four people in the world supposedly knew the exact amount, good guessers put it in the neighborhood...
...they could get it in the open market for $18 (last week's price, against a 1934 high of $31). he had another money-raising scheme up his well-tailored sleeve. He arranged to sell the other half of his new issue, 337,000 shares, to Distillers Co. Ltd., Britain's fabulous whiskey trust. The rich & noble lords of Scotch whiskeydom have a soft spot in their hearts for Mr. Porter as well as a shrewd eye for profits. Far from being a bitter competitor. National Distillers sells hundreds of cases of DCL's Scotch, helped...