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Millicent Jordan (Ann Andrews) is giving a dinner for Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, visiting social lion and lioness. To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star. Into this tranche devie, from the minute the invitations are telephoned, steps tragedy. The film star, lover of the Jordans' daughter, is made to realize he is through. Packard ruins Mr. Jordan, determines to get a divorce from his wife, who is in love with Dr. Talbot...
...Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where the family and crew salvaged what they could before it turned turtle and sank in shallow water...
Later in the evening they spied a light at sea. Burning their last films, oil and flares, they hailed the trawler Lord Talbot. At dawn the next morning she nosed in through the ice to pick them up. As they boarded the ship, they saw an iceberg slowly crush the wreck of the Familia Volano...
...Pennsylvania, $135,000; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio, $120,000; Lewis Warrington Baldwin, MOP, $105,167; Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson, $90,000; Frederick Ely Williamson, New York Central, $80,000; Edward Eugene Loomis, Lehigh, $72,000; Fairfax Harrison, Southern, $67,500; Walter L. Ross, Nickel Plate, $60,000; Clive Talbot Jaffray, the Soo, $45,000; Patrick H. Joyce, Chicago Great Western, $40,500; Morris McDonald, Maine Central...
...State is kept down to 476,700 bbl. a day against the figure of 486,800 bbl. the week the offer was made. Oilmen expected independents would meet the terms, less California gasoline would be shipped to the East, all gasoline prices would benefit. Offer for Richfield. James A. Talbot, onetime chairman of California's Richfield Oil Co., and two other former high executives of the company last week spent their fifth week in jail, serving for grand theft. Had they picked up a paper they might have read that Consolidated Oil Corp, (Sinclair-Prairie combine) was offering...