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Just now the American steel business has staged a thoroughly remarkable "come-back." Orders pile up, prices are firm, extra dividends are the order of the day, earnings are increasing. Nevertheless, some American steel leaders are casting anxious eyes towards Europe. Schwab is in Germany. Gary has departed for South America. To students of the industry, aware of bad conditions in the export trade, these facts are not without significance...
...exact purpose of Mr. Schwab's European visit is unknown. Varying rumors report that he is about to acquire an interest in Austrian or German concerns. At any rate, the potential and actual competition anticipated from the European steel centres is no topic of mere academic interest, least of all to the American steel men best qualified to judge conditions in the industry...
Harvard will be interested in Laurence Schwab's new musical comedy, "A Perfect Lady", with Constance Binney, which comes to the Shubert Theatre on December 17th, for the holidays. Laurence Schwab '14, the producer, is a Harvard man, and Lee Simonson '10, who designed the costumes and production were identified with theatricals during their years at college. Schwab was active in Hasty Pudding circles as a student and last year made a special trip to Boston to help stage the Hasty Pudding show, bringing with him the expert Sammy Lee, who staged the musical numbers. Since leaving college Mr. Schwab...
...Perfect Lady" will also be interesting because Laurence Schwab is one of the authors of the "book", having collaborated with Frank Mandel, George Gershwin, who wrote the music, B. G. DeSylva, who supplied the Lyrics, Sammy Lee who staged the musical numbers and Lee Simonson, designer of the costumes and stage settings form an interesting group. The piece has its opening acts laid in the garden of a bungalow on the roof of a New York apartment house and its final act in a little settlement high up in the Andes mountains of Peru. A notably strong cast will support...
Divorced. William Ellis Corey, 57, steel man (Director of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation), by Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, 41, former musical comedy actress, in Paris. She charged desertion. He succeeded Charles M. Schwab in 1903 as President of the U. S. Steel Corporation at $100,000 a year, then a record salary for a corporation executive in the U. S. After seeing the then Miss Gilman act in The Mocking Bird, he settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, " consented" to her divorcing him and married Miss Gilman in 1907. He resigned...