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...title of the case is "The Prudential Surety Company of Amesburg, Plaintiff, versus The Fidelity Bounding Company. Defendant, for Final Decree on Master's Report...
...TIME, Dec. 13). As the Mexican Government retorts in kind, the "rights" and even the facts of the case are rapidly fading from view. Each new barrage of propaganda, from whichever side, must be weighed with the suspicion appropriate to the consideration of a plea in court for the plaintiff or the defense...
...plaintiff, Miss Louise Owen, a dark-eyed graceful woman, for 20 years Lord Northcliffe's secretary, made sensational charges against his brother, Lord Rothermere, who has succeeded him as the great overlord of the British press. Miss Owen charged that Lord Rothermere, as an executor of the Northcliffe estate, virtually sold to himself control of the Daily Mail Trust, in 1922, at four pounds a share, whereas the shares were allegedly worth seven pounds. She asked, as one of the Northcliffe heirs, that this sale be now set aside, a step which would unbalance the whole newspaper structure of England...
...After testimony for the plaintiff was complete Miss Owen caused a sensation by suddenly withdrawing all her charges, allegedly as the result of a quiet settlement out of court by agents of Lord Rothermere...
...long, successful tour, William Hodge is back on Broadway starring in his own play. A Connecticut woman Justice henpecks Mr. Hodge, makes him scrub, wash dishes. Hence, naturally, an unexplained visit to Manhattan to investigate an escapade of his turbulent daughter causes suspicion of infidelity. Mother as judge, witness, plaintiff, tries Mr. Hodge for divorce, and upon explanations all around is overcome by belated material passion. Assurances on the program by allegedly potent grey-wigs testify to the plot's "legal possibilities," presumably to sooth lay doubts. Gladys Hanson as the wife in trousers ably supports laconic, "stagey...