Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film actor; and Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died...
Because he has been one of its trustees since 1909, because he has served on its executive committee since 1910, because he gave it $1,000,000 cash in 1928, George Blumenthal, retired senior partner of the firm of Lazard Frères, was last week elected seventh president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He succeeds the late Furniture Tycoon William Sloane Coffin (TIME...
...being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian music-hall star who used to be her partner in a sister-act. Changing the color of her hair and assuming a French accent, Constance Bennett nearly seduces her husband away from herself. Good shot: Franchot Tone promising Tullio Carminati to plead his case with Constance Bennett, then uneasily making love on his own behalf while Carminati plays rapturously...
Earle Bailie had been called from the banking firm of J. & W. Seligman, of which he is the most active partner, to coach Acting Secretary Morgenthau, himself no banker, on large scale bond flotations. Had Senator Couzens been pressed to explain why he wanted Earle Bailie fired, he would have pointed to the Senate's foreign bond investigation which two years ago found some defaulted Peruvian bonds sponsored by J. & W. Seligman, and a $415,000 "commission" paid by the firm to the son of Peru's late President Leguia...
...Since Partner Seligman was 76 when he died, had been inactive in the firm for years, politicians viewed this reason as polite fiction. Senator Couzens' threats seemed more plausible; proved again that any Wall Streeter is good mincemeat for the Congressional sausage-machine...