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...rides a bicycle through New England peddling hardware. One of his German-Jew employers, Faber, is impressed with his warning that the jobber's day is done, that only manufacturers will survive the business slump. Faber's partner dies. Sam marries Faber's daughter Paula, not wholly for her dashing brunette looks. She brings a $25,000 dowry. Affairs at his and Faber's new nail factory in Bayonne, N. J., make him almost late for the wedding. That night he sits up late reading quotations on steel and pig iron...
After a few summers in Bayonne boarding houses, Sam is growing rich and Paula having men friends. He gets into a Chicago nail-and-wire pool, buys a Superba motor. Paula brings his middle name into play, "S. Osgood Smith." He buys Bethlehem Steel stock and some rolling mills. In the last chapters, Paula is employing their millions to make their daughter's Semitic strain fashionable enough for the Junior League. To Sam, profits are unprofitable. Even the recurrent ghost of Evelyn has become meaningless. He endows universities with an absent gesture; lets his secretaries invent his excuses; fiddles with...
...Chairman, P. R. Harmel, Sylvia Weisbuch; M. Weisbuch, Elizabeth Smith; E. Kavinoky, Irene Rose; G. Nathan, Berthe Mitchell; L. Levy, Rose Long; J. Collins, Paula Freedman, Caroline Heller; W. Silverman, Viola Cornez; R. P. Kantor, Rose Sachs; T. T. Cook, Gertrude Davis...
...evening, Gallagher and Shean supplied the light banter act, and Ivan Bankoff the dancing. Paul Decker in the sketch "I Heard--!", managed to "get across" very well. Any presentation dealing with gossip is sure to interest a certain large portion of the audience, at least. Madelon and Paula Miller gave a good exhibition of youthful talent. They are better-looking than might be expected, and sing and dance well. The impersonation act was in the hands of Miss Venita Gould, who did fairly well as Lenore Ulric and several others...
...Sullivan, chairman, and Miss Paula Forster, W. B. Clough and Miss Eleanor Hill, R. C. Cooke, H. S. Kenney and Miss Barbara Farley, W. Moore and Miss Alicia M. Kennedy, W. J. Murray and Miss Cecil Barter, N. V. Nelson and Miss Ruth M. Todd, F. H. Stephens and Miss Murial Childs, J. F. Stuart and Miss Irene Carruthers, F. G. Lockwood...