Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devil's Lottery (Fox). Simultaneously last week were released Elissa Landi's third novel and her fifth cinema. She had reason to be pleased with both. The book, House for Sale (Doubleday, Doran ?$2.00) is a competent study of a female musician who gave up her career in favor of matrimony and three children. No brilliant achievement for a professional novelist, it is probably the best fiction ever perpetrated by a cinemactress. The picture, Devil's Lottery, less sensational than The Yellow Ticket in which she last performed, is a glib and interesting melodrama in which Miss Landi performs...
...firm of Rogers & Manson which currently publishes it. It became Architectural Forum in 1916. In 1928 it was bought by National Trade Journals, Inc. reputedly for $1,000,000. The current building slump cost the magazine heavily in advertising. Year ago it was retrieved at receiver's sale by Rogers & Manson, headed by President Howard Myers. Editorially it lost nothing in the process...
...enter. A 16-year-old is not too young; a 63-year-old not too aged. Students are supposed to have $17 for room & board for the first term, but one girl was admitted with 63?. Tuition costs nothing. Berea's deficits are made up by subscriptions, endowments, sale of student products. There are many friends, locally and elsewhere. In Manhattan last week Berea was seeking new friends and patrons, with an exhibition-its first-of products of the college's nine saleable student industries. On view were buns, toys, candies, furniture, brooms & brushes, homespuns, rugs, pictures...
...cities grow and their suburbs thicken, city merchants find it increasingly wise to take their wares to the suburbs for sale. New York and Chicago particularly have become surrounded by rich buying areas far from Fifth Avenue and State Street. Last week Fifth Avenue lost more trade. Opened with much civic and social pomp was a large new store of Franklin Simon & Co. in Greenwich, Conn. Not the first nor the second New York store to open a branch outside the Metropolitan area (B. Altman & Co. has branches in White Plains, N. Y. and East Orange, N. J.; Best...
...Chicago and Insull Utility Investments, Inc. The first company has maturities every year until 1935. The 1932 maturity will be $10,000,000 in June. Last week's price of 30% of par indicated the concern felt over the ability of the company to pay when due. The sale of many Insull properties has been widely rumored. The most acceptable story was that United Gas Improvement Co. would acquire the New England companies; Public Service Corp. of New Jersey, those adjacent to it; Stone & Webster, the southern system. The Illinois-Indiana companies would be retained by the Insull group...