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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. As a certified public accountant he had as a client the Theatre Guild, for which he devised a "fiscal week" sys tem. Each Saturday night the books were closed, reckoning made. Systematizing backstage procedure, he fell naturally into stage managing. Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were two of his assignments. He has been a consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors...
Louis audiences been notoriously sparse and cool. During the 1927 Christmas season, one of the two legitimate theatres in St. Louis harbored Abie's Irish Rose. The other one was empty. But this summer St. Louis feet will tap to the rollicking rhythms of several syncopated operettas, including Rainbow, Funny Face, The Five O'Clock Girl, Sally, Peggy Ann, Tell Me More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more...
...elimination race to see who shall represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race abroad. Night came on. Rain, snow, conflicting winds buffeted the bags. Some bumped into mountains, crashed into barns. One was almost run down by a night-flying mail plane. Day broke. Two of the balloons descended, discovered they had been blown in circles all night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy...
...German-born Boston milkman, he graduated from grammar school at 11 and entered the Cambridge Latin School for Boys. As a tribute to his small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With a teriffic capacity for work, he was a partner...
...order to sell its output, International decided to invest in newspapers, to "buy a market." A case in point: in 1927 International had supplied one-third of the newsprint for the Herald and Traveler, in 1928 one-sixth. The outlook for 1929 was dubious. By purchasing stock in the two newspapers. International got their whole newsprint order. Mr. Graustein next argued that vertical combinations between newspapers and newsprintmakers were natural and wise. He cited the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times in the U. S., the Rothermere and the Berry papers in England, all of which own paper mills...