Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constance Bennett, a woman of experience, works as a model in a dress shop by day, and by night she exercises all the powers she possesses in securing Paul Lucas for a rich husband. Loretta Young, supposedly a simple country girl, has arrived in the great metropolis to become independent of men and to set herself up as the proud possessor of a hat shop. Janet Gaynor wants a man she can take care of plus a home and some children. Irrevocably lost among the three of them with their love affairs of which only one is successful, the audience...
...Dane, Sober, self-contained, and introspective--Howard is all these, but with it all the thread of humor Shakespeare most certainly intended his Prince to have runs throughout this entire production. At times the wit is biting, at times it is gentle, and again there is a touch of rich whole-hearted merry-making. It seems almost as though Mr. Howard had determined to avoid the pit-fall John Gielgud's humorless characterization of Hamlet has apparently fallen into in New York...
...immediate intention of selling stock. But as a general financing medium for the future the new preferred would further the rich coal carrier's ambition to increase the proportion of stock to bonds in its capitalization. Present ratio is 44% stock, 56% bonds, which is conservative. So far this year C. & O. had refunded at lower interest rates $60,000,000 worth of long-term bonds, incorporating in the new issues sinking fund provisions which will retire the entire amount by maturity. A relatively novel idea in railroad finance, the sinking fund in the case of C. & 0. will...
Died. Count Louis Hamori ("Cheiro"), 69, celebrated oldtime palmist; after long illness; in Hollywood. Author of a book on palmistry at 13, he amassed $250,000 from rich female clients, owned an English-language newspaper in Paris, The American Register. On the night he died, said his nurse, the clock outside his room struck the hour of one thrice...
...free discussion. But their instrument of government was captured by Leftists and used for their own purposes, thus playing into the hands of another political group with a similar all-exclusive ideology, that of Fascism. In the background lay the stark facts that society was composed of the very rich and the very poor, that the original government rested upon a very small base of the middle-class...