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...displays more loquaciousness than money to Grant Mitchell, the irate manager of the ultra fashionable Wentworth Plaza resort hotel. Glenda Farrell again inherits the role of the gold-digger who sets her cap for Hugh Herbert, an idle multi-millionaire with a penchant for writing monograms and collecting antique snuff boxes. Alice Brady, as the close-fisted millionaire mother of Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh, does her acting in the exaggerated mode of the whole production. Judged by the standards of a musical extravaganza "Gold Diggers of 1935" is excellent. There is humor, a soupcon of tragedy, good acting...
Judge Nields was born in Wilmington in 1868, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1892. His father was a captain of Delaware artillery in the Civil War. As Federal District Attorney in 1906, John Nields helped snuff out the Louisiana Lottery, whose printing offices were in Wilmington. He raided the lottery office, destroyed, among other things, complete samples of every kind of lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks...
...solving this affair, the Bishop had recourse to the more exoteric passages of his criminal literature. He drew his deductions from such conventional clues as fingerprints and lipstick stains on glasses. He blinded the thieves with an old-fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this...
...Tobacco shares made the most news when P. Lorillard Co. declared a $1 extra, the first since 1917, and George W. Helme Co., famed snuff makers, announced a $4.75 extra special, a $2 customary special, and a regular quarterly of $1.25. Directors of American Can took Wall Street and some of the company's own officers by surprise with a $1 extra besides the regular $1 quarterly. A small chemical company named Vulcan Detinning, which in 32 years of corporate existence has omitted common dividends for 28, made enough out of reducing scrap tinplate to pay a $4 special. Ruberoid...
...value of U. S. field crops, fifth in U. S. exports and most of it goes up in smoke. Usually the crop is worth $250,000,000 but last year, with prices not far from rock bottom, it brought only $180,000,000. Processed into cigarets, cigars, snuff and quids, it is worth $1,000,000,000 annually, and its taxes provide the U. S. Government with its largest single item of miscellaneous revenue ($400,000,000 per year). The marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but the marketing of raw tobacco is about two steps...