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...season the wind in Bermuda blows 80 m.p.h., rips shutters off walls, cedars out of the ground. Last week Bermuda was shaken by a hurricane of another kind as the result of a speech in the U. S. House of Representatives by Pennsylvania's loose-tongued Louis Thomas McFadden, impeacher of Herbert Hoover. Declared Representative McFadden...
Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...
...reveries inspired by a sweet pipe-smoke, a pipe-smoke like unto those described in mild, mellow, expensive advertising, the Vagabond has often pondered the decay of magazine editors. Following a train of thought induced by mention of Messers George Horace Lorimer, Bernarr McFadden, and Lincoln Kirstein, he has publicly bewailed the loss of effusions such as those of the youthful Lincoln Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There...
Spectacular as is the Government's effort to convict one Manhattan big banker of tax evasion, not so spectacular is it as another which last week was suggested: an effort to catch Andrew William Mellon for tax evasion. Louis T. McFadden, Congressman from Pennsylvania, charged in the House that Mr. Mellon in 1931 had sold 60,000 shares of Western Public Service, and 123,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal to establish losses of $6,700,000, had through a Mellon-owned corporation repurchased them 31 days after the sale. Said Attorney General Cummings: "The charges are serious...
...Mesdames N. S. Bartlett, Arthur Beane, Cornelius Bliss, Charles Breed, Trowbridge Callaway, Donald Cutler, Henry Chauncey, Philip Dalton, Joseph Davis, Samuel Drury, G. F. Ducey, A. C. Hanford, Dana Hardwick, A. E. Hindmarsh, DeLancey Jay, Shaun Kelly, Henry Keyes, William Lane, Delmar Leighton, Charles Locke, Matthew Luce, George McFadden, S. G. Mortimer, F. R. Moseley, Potter Palmer, John Pratt, J. O. Proctor Hampden Robb, Chandler Robbins, J. D. Sawyer, S. D. Warren, Lawrence Waterbury, P. B. Weld, Barrett Wendell, and S. H. Wolcott...