Word: mansfield
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...Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert were born in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1900 they came to New York and bucked the powerful Klaw & Erlanger theatrical trust by renting the Herald Square Theatre and persuading resonant Richard Mansfield to act in it. Five years later Sam Shubert was killed in a Pennsylvania Railroad wreck. Lee and Jake (who hates to be called Jake in print) carried on the business and prospered mightily. They bought theatres, built theatres (with the assistance of innumerable unofficial partners). They made New York's most imposing music hall out of an old riding ring on Broadway...
With Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...
...last year were $9,000,000 and $20.000.000 respectively. Atlas now has $25,000,000 in assets, controls a total investment structure of $48,000,000. Despite their many duties, Friends Howard & Odium still have time to go trout-fishing together at the Howard camp, Mount Mansfield, in Vermont...
Pigeon-holers used to put Ruth Suckow into the compartment marked "Dreary Middle West, small-town." Pigeon-holers were wrong. Authoress Suckow is not one of those documentary writers who cannot see the people for the buildings. She has more than a hint of that knack Katherine Mansfield had, which many a Russian writer has, of holding a simplifying lens up to human nature. In this book of 14 short stories about Children and Older People you have the almost constant feeling that you are seeing people as they...
Frustrate Empire. Fifth largest maker of sheet steel (used by automobile, refrigerator and metal furniture trades) is Empire Steel Corp. of Mansfield, Ohio. Empire was formed in 1927 by the seven Davey Brothers of Mansfield whose boast was that their ancestors had worked iron ever since the Romans conquered Britain. Last year when Empire was having difficulty facing Depression, Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland bought the holdings of William H. Davey, estimated at 14%. In March Empire planned a reorganization, but shareholders did not show any willingness to invest in additional securities. Last month it ordered wages...