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Manhattan's fusty old First National Bank is long on tradition. No employe or officer may smoke, swear or tell risqué stories within its portals. Most desks are roll-tops and on their upper right-hand corners officers' hats are traditionally poised. Last week it looked as though another tradition were forming. For the retirement of First National's Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds, a onetime lawyer who had no banking experience when he became First National president 17 years ago, gave complete command of Manhattan's ninth largest bank to President Leon Fraser, who also...
That the blase dinner guests who tell this story are being more apt than risqué, was indicated by a report last week from Secretary William M. Jardine's watchful Department of Agriculture. U. S. horses, said the report, and U. S. mules, are decreasing rapidly in numbers. Their population is 17% less than in 1920. The next five years will show a 30% or 40% reduction of their present scanty number. Breeding, warned the Department, must be stimulated to meet what is already an acute shortage on farms where machinery is impracticable...
Ernst Vajda will arive to see four of his plays presented, counting Fata Morgana which the Theatre Guild now has at the Garrick. Ina Claire and Bruce McRae are rehearsing Grounds for Divorce; Belasco has Harem, described as a recklessly risqué farce: and Gilbert Miller a piece termed at present The High...
FATA MORGANA-Risqué, alluring satire of a city Venus who finds that ' one night in the country gives her all : she desires...
...smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...