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...number of historic incidents that Artist Rivera managed to crowd on his hard plaster panels was impressive. To be quickly identified were Dutch settlers purchasing Manhattan at the point of a matchlock; a slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, bushy-browed Wall Street trader and elephantophile, resigned as president and became chairman of American International Corp., his famed investment trust. Harry A. Arthur, first vice president, was promoted to the presidency. Recently ill, Trader Brush planned a prolonged vacation to recover his health...
Fellow-members of the Exchange were dumbfounded. No more anti-social act could they imagine. Such a man was beyond the pale. Last week four different brokers sprang forward to seize the bone which had belonged to Trader Goldman by announcing themselves as specialists in the three stocks which had been all his. No stock exchange rule did they violate, for any member may open a "book"' as a specialist in any stock at any time. Usage and small possibilities of profit ordinarily keep members from "horning in" on each other's business. But last week bitter brokers...
William S. Van Dyke (Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas, Tarzau the Ape Man, The Prizefighter and the Lady), is the director whom Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assigns regularly to nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired...
...turned up two years ago in Hollywood to be a cameraman, joined the Van Dyke expedition as guide, photographed so well that Van Dyke decided to make him the hero. Most of the whites in the cast are members of Van Dyke's technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried...