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Guaranty-Commerce. The largest merger rumor, persisting over many denials, related a forthcoming union between Guaranty Trust Co. and National Bank of Commerce, both of Manhattan. Should this rumor?which has proceeded to the "reliably informed" and "authoritative sources" stage???be true, the resulting combination would constitute the world's largest bank. Guaranty Trust has resources of $1,052,000,000; National Bank of Commerce has assets of $934,000,000? thus the merged banks would form a two-billion-dollar institution. Combined deposits of the banks would total $1,570,000,000. An exchange of stocks would probably...
...turned out then in great numbers to hear him conduct his own works in a manner almost as gratifying as their own Koussevitzky's. Manhattan heard him next and as pianist under the auspices of her pro-musica society. She rose to her feet when he came on the stage???a slight, aristocratic figure with graying hair. She listened to a program made up of works she had heard long since and approved, pronounced him at the end of the evening far more impressive as a composer than as a pianist...
...Baby. Beatrice Lillie is reliably considered the funniest woman on the stage; although there is many a funny woman on the stage???and off it. Miss Lillie* gained reputation several years ago when she suddenly burst upon a placid metropolis in Chariot's Revue. She sang serious patriotic songs in a gravely irreverent manner. She did many unusual things with her eyes, voice, hands and strange, straight face which sometimes re minds one of Buster Keaton at his best. She played another Chariot show, and ever since some one has been trying to star her in a musical show...
...three people on the stage??? husband, wife, lover. He caused the husband to discover the truth of the triangle. He favored the wife with a justification. He made both the men look rather foolish. He had the sound sincerity to make the wife turn them both down...
Jeremy Collier, Bishop of the English Church in the early 18th Century? he who helped to purge the vicious stage of the Restoration by his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage???would turn completely over in his grave if he could read the comment of The Churchman (organ of the P. E. Church) on the present incident...