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...Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
...first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton report it did pass a resolution binding all League members not to recognize Manchukuo...
London, hating to see rich contracts slip between its fingers, debated whether it had been wise to cheer so loudly for the Lytton Report, blaming Japan directly for the invasion of Manchuria. Wrote the Times: ''Whatever may be thought of the origins of the new state, it is impossible not to admire Japanese grit and organizing capacity. . . . Countries which have trading interests in the Far East . . . must not delay too long in making up their minds how to reconcile their trading activities in Manchuria with the principle of non-recognition...
...word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U. S. scene twilight has come. If keepers of other people's money continue to lose caste at the present rate, "banker"' may some day be an insult. And some future Lytton Strachey will have a gay time humanizing the pre-1929 financiers to less than lifesize. Such a student of the period will list in his bibliography this lurid sketch of Author Winkler's on the Stillman family and what was once their National City Bank. A garish specimen...
...boxes built in an old-fashioned semicircle downstairs, those who had the desire and the price could see and be seen at this week's opening. It was among the goldfish and the bull-fiddles in the Hub Store office of the late George Lytton that the new Chicago Grand Opera Company was born. George Lytton, who died fortnight ago of heart trouble (TIME. Dec. 18), and Banker George Woodruff did the figuring. A five-week season, they decided, could be put on for a little less than $150,000, approximately a third of the Insull com pany...