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...Trinity's assets are some $18,000,000, mostly in real estate, the income of which goes to its chapels to charities and missions, to sister churches (even swank St. Thomas's on Fifth Avenue was glad of Trinity's help when it was getting started...
James John ("Jimmy") Walker, one-time Mayor of New York, has recently hid in Manhattan's swank Ambassador Hotel where his good friend Theatrical Promoter A. C. Blumenthal maintains a suite. Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore is a "model Indian prince," more interested in reforms than in the jewels, dancing girls, elephants of his important province. Betty Compton is a sleek-haired musicomedy dancer, who had a part in Fifty Million Frenchmen...
...Chicago, apartments are about 22½% lower than in 1929. But many smart buildings are almost filled, their apartments renting at better prices than corresponding Manhattan ones. In Chicago's swank Lake Shore Drive district a six-room apartment in the building where lives Samuel Insull Jr. (who has rented three-fourths of his duplex) was recently rented for $300, while a four-room one in the building called "home" by Auburn's Errett Lobban Cord costs $200 against the former price of $300. In the cheaper apartments of from $50 to $80 a month there is only...
...blue Buick flew along the road toward Plymouth, and at its wheel sat a stately, dignified man, gray but hale, taking obvious delight in the throbbing power he controlled. The needle on the swank dial crept from left to right, from sixty to seventy, perhaps toward that exhilarating eighty. It was then fate intervened, and when the big Buick drew to a stop by the kerb the policeman's scathing tongue had respect for neither the distinguished lawyer or famed administrator that were one in the stately, dignified...
...Durante, who appears in one scene for five minutes; Billie Dove, whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with her rôle?that of Miss Davies' friend in the Follies. The story concerns the quick jump of the two young ladies from an East Side tenement to swank apartments on Park Avenue. First Miss Dove gets into the chorus, permits herself to be kept. Miss Davies follows in short order, is set up in style befitting a "regally gilded queen." Montgomery, once provider for Miss Dove, falls in love with Miss Davies. The frequent quarrels of Miles Davies...