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Biggest of the big music names in Hollywood now is that of slender, raven-haired Irving Berlin, who wrote his first song 29 years ago when he was a singing waiter in a Bowery saloon. But cinema studios were turning out tunes by the gross long before the little dean of the Alley allied himself with pictures. Elaborate music departments sprang up in Hollywood in 1927 when sound films first came in. Hundreds of tunesmiths bummed their way West, found jobs overnight, collected huge salaries. After the first flood of musical films, deflation came fast, and there was a rush...
...week of "the most severe blow to American business prestige in China since the founding of the International Settlement in 1843." They were referring to the fact that in Shanghai's U. S. Court grave, tee- totaling, confidence-inspiring U. S. insurance, banking & real estate Tycoon Frank Jay Raven, founder of the famed "Raven Interests," which once boasted assets of $70,000,000 (TIME, June 17), had just been convicted of embezzlement on seven counts and sentenced to five years in prison at McNeil Island, Wash...
Recalling that Embezzler Raven's wife is a missionary's daughter and that he numbered among his depositors scores of missionaries and thousands of Christian Chinese, the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent wrote...
Apparently no Connecticut bank examiner ever went to Shanghai to inspect the books of the Raven Bank, which is incorporated in Connecticut, and thus Banker Raven conducted his business as he pleased, lived quietly in his $150,000 mansion, contributed to local churches, never drank, and invited confidence with the friendly slogan: Deposit Your Money in This Bank and Become A Partner. While her husband sat in a Shanghai jail, Mrs. Raven continued last week to reside in Germany at Heidelberg, where the Raven daughters are completing their higher education...
...Chandler). The last gives him much trouble because, instead of picking out a prince for a husband, her choice lights on Hsieh (Bramwell Fletcher), her family's handsome and capable gardener. The lovers are banished from Wang's house, whereupon the narrative is briefly clouded by the raven wing of grief. Hsieh is called off to the wars in the Western Regions and, like a Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife...