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...protest against German antiSemitism, Henry Ludwig Mond, Baron Melchett, British chemical tycoon, half-Jewish member of the Church of England, embraced Judaism in a liberal London synagog...
...Allied stock as collateral and otherwise to obtain from U. S. investors $40,000,000, "largely for the purpose of building European chemical plants which compete with your company in the markets of the world." This charge depends upon a fact: that the late great British Sir Alfred Mond had a large block of Allied Chemical & Dye stock; and upon a theory: that he needed money to complete the great plants of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. and could get it only by selling the stock to Solvay American Investment Corp. which bought it after raising the necessary capital...
BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK- H. C. McNeile-Crime Club ($2). An unknown threat against the Empire and the murder of a Secret Service man pit Drum- mond et al. against a ruthless criminal genius...
...before a jury gathered to select New York's 15 most beautiful mannequins to model clothes at the World's Fair. When no decision was reached, someone suggested that the mannequins lift their skirts. Someone shouted, "Hike 'em up!" All the jurors tittered except Robert EcU mond ("Bobby") Jones, famed stage set designer. Said he sternly: "We came to look, not to leer...
...police held back curious spectators. Shiny limousines rolled up, discharging richly dressed socialites. Flash-lamps flared continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally...