Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Innocents of Paris (Paramount). Maurice Chevalier is a French cabaret singer known in the U. S. only to the few who have heard him in Paris, or on nights when he did not have a cold during his short engagement this spring in Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic (TIME, March 4). He had been built into a cinema celebrity with the most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman...
...paradox of a "beneficial insurrection" is readily explained. The revolt was led openly by several Generals of the Army and Governors of Mexican States (TIME, March 11, et seq.), who had machinated secretly against Plutarco Elias Calles when he was President and later against his staunch friend President Emilio Portes Gil. So highly placed were the insurrectos that until they actually broke out their banners of revolt, nothing could be done to check their plotting. Once they chose to take the field, and lost, their power within the Army and State was broken...
Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham-Spaulding. Another merger following a merger was definitely announced in the jewelry field. Last March Manhattan's Black, Starr & Frost and Gorham Co. bought themselves a corporate wedding ring and decided to go down the path of business life together. Last week, however, this matrimonial metaphor became somewhat mixed when Spaulding & Co., Inc., joined the union. A holding company?Gorham, Inc.?was formed to handle the joint affairs of the three companies, each of which continued to operate its own establishment. Said Edmund C. Mayo, head of Gorham, Inc.: "U. S. prosperity has brought about...
McKesson-Robbins-Merrell. Oldest drug house in St. Louis is J. S. Merrell Drug Co., founded in 1845 DY Jacob S. Merrell. Perhaps youngest national drug house is McKesson & Robbins, Inc. (successor to McKesson & Robbins, Inc. of Conn.) formed in 1928 with the merger of 16 drug companies. In March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow...
...Berry papers in England, all of which own paper mills. To be sure, in these cases it is the press that owns the paper company. However, Mr. Graustein was able to cite the case of William Harrison, British paper maker, who owns a chain of newspapers and magazines (TIME, March 25). Conscious nonetheless of the U. S. tradition against any invasion of the freedom of the press or control of it by special interests, Mr. Graustein declared that in no case did his company own a controlling share in any paper. Said he: "I have never met an editor...