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...recovered by one Richard Merton, chairman of the board of the Metallbank and president of the Metallgesellschaft, two German Corporations, both allegedly† (TIME, Sept. 13) the original stockholders of the original 49% of seized American Metal Co. stock. He was in addition a stockholder of the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux. Hence the Government alleges that the Societe Suisse at the time of the claim was but a holding company for the Merton family interests, that that family retained majority control in it, and that through its recovery of the Merton equity...
Marc Connelly is primarily responsible for this curiously distinguished adventure. Mr. Connelly is the man who worked so long and so successfully with George Kaufman in the manufacture of such plays as Merton of the Movies and Beggar on Horseback. The Wisdom Tooth is his first flight alone...
...Marx Brothers. These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...
Young Woodley. The return of Glenn Hunter after his long and brilliant occupation in Merton of the Movies is one of the important autumn happenings. He fulfilled in a different and far more serious part the expectations of his followers. He plays a school boy of England and makes the character live and suffer notably...
...which the afternoon rehearsal had just been held, Glenn Hunter, star of "Young Woodley", which opened last. Monday night at the Hollis Theatre in Boston, spoke rapidly and enthusiastically of college, of his own work and plans, but most of all of the new play,--the successor of "Merton...