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NOBODY'S IN TOWN-Edna Ferber- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Two novelettes- one about a Midwesterner married to a New York socialite, the other about rich New Yorkers who complain bitterly of the hardships of a Pullman trip over the route taken by their pioneer ancestor-demonstrating, with Ferber dummies and sound truck, that rich people are not living up to pioneer traditions...
Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at "Devil's Bend.'' one of Pennsylvania Railroad's sharpest curves; at Greensburg...
...many New Dealers were busy talking about a different set of Government statistics: figures comparing the size of industrial inventories last September with that in other months and years. This data showed that in December 1929, 50 "representative manufacturers" (only three mentioned by name were Chrysler, General Motors and Pullman) had inventories totaling $232,456,000. On Sept. 30, 1937 the same 50 had inventories of $285,606,000. In short, these concerns had more goods on hand when the current depression began than they did shortly after th crash in 1929. These figures were presented to President Roosevelt last...
This week Manhattan music lovers gawped and gloated while more than $1,000,000 worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary...
Roomette fares are to be approximately 40% above lower berth charges, but lower than the rates now charged for bedroom cars. Sample: Chicago-New York lower berth, $6.00; Section $8.40; Bedroom $10.80; Roomette, $8.40. If the increase in fares applied for in Washington last week by the Pullman Co. is granted, these rates will be increased...