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...states, operates power, gas and electric railway companies. It controls the potent St. Louis Gas and Coke Corp. What it did last week was to purchase the entire common stock of seven British power companies which serve more than 1,000,000 Britishers in 95 English and Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India, his appointment was calculated to assuage British ill-feeling against...
Will Fyffe, who is the six point capital letter lead this week at the Keith Memorial Theatre, eradicates within the first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly...
...Mississippi Company was organized by the Scotch economist and gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole...
...Scotch Presbyterians broke on the question of how far to tolerate interference in pastoral matters, and patronage, by the secular authority...
...Memorial to help talented young U. S. musicians, heard Young Pianist Jerome Rappaport in evidence, heard the Musical Art Quartet. For refreshment then, there were vast quantities of paté de fois gras, chicken à la king, ice cream, cakes, cigarets, coffee. Some imagined later they had been served Scotch highballs, champagne cocktails, mixed by Brother Felix Kahn...