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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Curson (Warner Baxter), third-generation head of the House of Curson, swank Manhattan dress-shop, is busy whipping up a little bridal number for Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time...
Gangway (Gaumont-British) is the third British musical in little more than a year to tackle the task of making Jessie Matthews as popular in the U. S. as she is in England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...
First of the Italian trio was a trimotored Savoia-Marchetti piloted by Lieut.-Commander Samuele Cupini and Captain Amedeo Paradisi, who covered the 3,800 miles in 17½ hours at an average of 219 m.p.h. Co-pilot of the third Italian ship, only half-hour behind, was none other than Lieutenant Bruno Mussolini, thickset second son of Il Duce. On his account, the crowds at Le Bourget had all been carefully frisked by police before admission. With scrupulous politeness and notable lack of enthusiasm, they applauded as each plane landed. That night the Paris press gave Pierre...
American Export Lines is a sturdy little concern whose sturdy little boats (none bigger than 9,350 tons) carry about a third of the freight (not including grain) between the U. S. and the Mediterranean. This is the second richest trade route in the North Atlantic, and American Export has no U. S. competitors for it. Hence it is in a better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee...
...neglected subject of this neglected industry received last week such attention as it has long deserved when FORTUNE published (for the third time in its history) a whole issue devoted to one subject-U. S. Shipping. Virtually a 104,000-word book, this September issue of FORTUNE was the first thorough investigation of "an entirely new principle which has been injected into U. S. business on a gigantic scale . . . the principle of direct subsidy." It was described by Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission, which will administer the subsidy, as "the first concise, comprehensive and colorful presentation...