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...leadership of the 35 companies represented in Manhattan last week (their total capital stock: $1,000,000,000). there had been few changes in 1932. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. still spoke for General Motors; Walter P. Chrysler for Chrysler; Alvan Macauley for Packard (and as president of Automobile Chamber of Commerce, for the Industry) ; Albert Russel Erskine for Studebaker. Henry Ford still spoke for Lincoln: his Ford is not a member of the show. Notable among the changes had been the departure of Roy Dikeman Chapin, to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce, leaving William Joseph Mc-Aneeny active leader...
...Chrysler's Fred M. Zeder is curious about the new Pontiac he may have one sent to his plant and placed on his "Belgian Road." a machine which shakes and sways and jolts a car until finally some spring breaks or some nut wiggles loose. And if Packard's famed Major Jesse Gurney Vincent is curious about somebody else's chassis he may order one bent and twisted until he knows its points as well as if he had designed it. Just as inquisitive, just as skeptical, are the Industry's other engineers, including such...
...estate is one of the show places) is always called "The Cash." In its day it was one of the great business training schools, turning out also Richard Grant of General Motors' Chevrolet Division, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines, President Alvan Macauley of Packard. But now The Cash and the times have changed. So high-pressure were Founder Patterson's sales methods that today the U. S. market is saturated; 55% of N. C. R.'s business is done abroad where shopkeepers still toss centimes, kopeks, drachmas, kronen into tills...
...author's have taken a perfect segment of life in their selection. There is Dan Packard, the unscrupulous business man, self-made, of course, who continually remains the audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving...
...during ever seen. Max Kane, who plays a minor star, gives a convincing impersonation of the stock go-between. Ann Andrews, who wears the clothes of Mrs. Oliver Jordan surprisingly well, does not measure up to the standard set by Judith Wood in the part of Kitty Packard. "Dinner at Eight" will be one of those plays that one will have to see eventually...