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...Krupp or Schneider was present, though Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Eugene Schneider were represented by trusted agents. Only the exalted French munitions family of de Wendel candidly sent a representative bearing its great name, eldest brother Humbert de Wendel. Ostensibly the 107 delegates of Europe's munitioneers were meeting as the International Railmakers' Association, and on the Riviera also was that blithe international railmaker, Charles M. Schwab. Explained he: "My doctors say I react favorably to the excitement of roulette...
Other oillcers elected were A. Sterling MacDonald '36, Vice-President; Thomas A. Bittinbender '36, Secretary; Sturgis Warner '37, Treasurer; Theodore C. Osborne '37, Librarian; James A. Ford '37, Director of Specialties; F. Lee H. Wendel '38, Publicity Director; Russell G. Scott '36, Manager...
Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...
...Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends. Her objectivity results in a total effect almost alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death is a masterly example of her matter-of-fact style) it gathers a sombre power that rhetoric rarely attains. The Executioner Waits is neither easy nor inspiriting reading, but few readers who persist to the end will soon forget...
Located in the heart of Manhattan's retail shopping district, a few doors north of Lord & Taylor, Best & Co. and Franklin Simon and across the street from Arnold Constable & Co., the Wendel mansion and grounds were appraised last April at $4,500,000. S. H. Kress & Co. announced that they would replace the gloomy old house with the finest store in their system. But competition will be close at hand. A block up Fifth Avenue is F. W. Woolworth's famed Store No. 1000, opened in 1918 and stocked with quality goods to attract sophisticated Fifth Avenue shoppers...