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...Lyman Clarke, Chicago utilities tycoon (Utilities Power & Light), who startled filmdom when his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. gobbled control of Fox at a crucial point in its history. Last autumn Mr. Clarke was relieved of the presidency, made chairman. In his place was put his good friend Edward Richmond Tinker, also friendly with Chase National Bank (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week Mr. Tinker assumed the chairmanship and Mr. Clarke resigned, remaining as a director. With General Theatres in receivership, control of Fox now rests with Chase National rather than with G. T. E. and Mr. Clarke...
...passions-tinker with it every...
...obvious revelation of a life story or of superficial traits were disappointed. It was abstract, idealistic music, touched only here & there with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone. Large, amiable Mrs. Stock once gave a homely word-portrait of the Stock who likes to build furniture, tinker with electricity. After a particularly strenuous piece of conducting, when he was effusively mopping his brow, she leaned over to the next box, said: "Oh, my poor Frederick, he sweats...
...Sheehan's plans had been a matter of conjecture. Longtime associate (since 1914) of William Fox, he sided with the company's bankers when Mr. Fox was ousted, was said to have suffered a sudden breakdown late last year. Last week's news followed Fox President Edward Richmond Tinker's first official Hollywood inspection...
Business & Pleasure (Fox). Though he is head of a large company and hard beset by industrial difficulties, the Earl Tinker who is the hero of this picture must not be confused with the Edward Tinker who is president of Fox Film Corp. It would be libelous to suggest that Edward Tinker has mobile lips, like a mule's, a wiggling weather-beaten nose, and so little knowledge of how to behave that he would annoy his fellow passengers on a transatlantic liner by hooting low ballads in the ship's bar and chuckling at their...