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...Goulding, Riptide is not a good advertisement for the Thalberg plan. It is an anecdote with elephantiasis, glossy but erroneous, in which the story is less help than hindrance to the three best drawing-room actors in Hollywood. Typical line, Montgomery to Shearer, when he meets her at Cannes: "Whither thou goest, beautiful lady, so will I follow...
Married. Geraldine Swift, 22, daughter of President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co., packers; and Albert Thomas ("Tommy") Taylor, 26, Chicago broker, onetime Yale footballer; in Joliet, Ill. whither they eloped from Chicago...
From Weinsberg, Germany, whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble...
...Traylor got his start in the cattle pens. As a Texas banker he had to be an expert on livestock loans. He learned the subject so thoroughly that his reputation spread to St. Louis and on to Chicago, whither he went in 1914 as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank. During the War the late James B. Forgan, chairman of First National, was asked by the Federal Reserve to help select a man for the Treasury certificate drive in Chicago. He called for a list of Chicago bank presidents. "There's your man," he said...
Like most of the world, Britain was last week worrying about the next war. On that subject her leading citizens were highly vocal. Pink-cheeked George Bernard Shaw led off with a short-wave radio broadcast on the subject "Whither Britain?" Through yawps of static, the U. S. heard his pleasant Irish voice : "The big question is, for instance, is Britain heading straight for war? That is what you want to know, isn't it? At present Britain is not heading straight for anywhere. She is as likely to drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts...