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...figures in one Louis Sherwin's "Report on the Music Industry" in the March American Mercury are high enough to be incredible. He estimates that Paderewski earned $1,000,000 from concerts in two years, that ten other instrumentalists and singers* had earning capacities which equaled or exceeded Paderewski's. He also notes: "One young pianist of quite recent reputation was paid $12,000 for a week at a movie theatre. Thereupon, Kreisler refused an offer of $15,000 for a similar adventure, not on the ground that it was beneath his artistic dignity, but because...
Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan, and John Sherwin, Chairman of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, onetime managers of the company and the butt of stockholders' criticism, were elected directors...
...Sherwin further was appointed to the executive committee...
...company, under the presidency of its founder Frank A. Seiberling, was practically bankrupt. Dillon, Read & Co., who worked out the refinancing plans, had President Seiberling removed and the company placed under a management committee. This committee consisted of Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., John Sherwin of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, and Mr. Young. Mr. Young has been inactive as a manager, in reserve as counsellor...
...soon began to make profits. It is the largest company in the industry. But ordinary Goodyear stockholders received no share of the profits. The money went to pay interest on bonds and other new indebtedness incurred by the Dillon, Read refinancing. The management committee, particularly Mr. Dillon and Mr. Sherwin, were mismanaging, cried stockholders...