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...clerks. When both are discouraged by rumors of her misbehavior, she marries the family solicitor who has behaved more generously in the apparent emergency. Far funnier than the almost morbidly polite comicalities supplied by this situation are those contributed by the iceman (James Gleason) and Marie Prevost as a maid-of-all-work whose comments are ponderous, amazing. Sample-her rebuff to Iceman Gleason: "All I want
...m.p.h. offshore wind snapped a high-tension wire feeding the summer homes of such cinema notables as Ronald Colman, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Ruth Chatterton, Marie Prevost, at Malibu Beach, Calif. The wire fell on a tank of gasoline, exploded it. Fire ripped through the colony, destroyed 19 houses, including those of Louise Fazenda, Director Alan Dwan...
...Schwab forgot, but Mr. Grace simply would not tell. Each sat in the smart, new conference room of Lawyers Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon at No. 63 Wall Street. There also sat Col. Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, broker, director of Bethlehem Steel Corp., and there, for the moment, reposed the hopes of Cyrus Stephen Eaton, still waging bitter war against the merger of Bethlehem Steel with Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
Under the stage-management of Capt. William H. Stayton, board chairman of the National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment,* the first witness was Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Manhattan private-banker, director of Guaranty Trust Co., New York Trust Co., Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, New York Railways, Fifth Avenue Coach Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. As a colonel in the War, Mr. Murphy was adjutant of the Rainbow Division, A. E. F. He declared...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...