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Baby Pompadour (by Benjamin Graham; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). A program note to Baby Pompadour states: "Benjamin Graham, the author of the play, is a well-known figure in the financial world, and identified with the affairs of many impor tant corporations. He is also the senior author of an authoritative work in 'Security Analysis,' a member of the faculty of Columbia University, and active in the sphere of economics. Playwriting is his hobby and Baby Pompadour is his first...
Colonel Fred Glover, president of Timken-Detroit Axle Co., will be president of Timken Silent Automatic Co., to be formed by a merger of the former company with Silent Automatic Corp., big maker of oilburners, whose president, Walter F. Tant, will have a large financial interest in the new company, help in sales policies. Timken-Detroit Co. was a subsidiary of Timken-Detroit Axle Co. which has no corporate relationship to the roller bearing company...
...Little is the recognition given these crea tions; no color reproductions of them have been made. Yet, according to Lee Simonson, who has lately visited Russia to inspect the work of modernist painters, who is familiar with con temporary German, French, U. S. artists: "Rivera is the most impor tant artist living today. He means as much to the modern world as Giotto did to the Renaissance.* He is the culmination, the full development of the modernist movement...
...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...
...Morrill, Columbia Hospital, Washington, complained of the increasing price of catgut (for operations), due, he said, "to the control of the raw material by packers and an apparent intent on their part to attempt to control the manufacture of this product." Cost of Cure. The most impor tant problem facing hospital administration is the caring for people of moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works...