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Sued for Divorce, Horace Liveright, publisher and theatrical producer; by Actress Elise Bartlett. former wife of Actor Joseph Schildkraut; in Manhattan...
Bear Brush vigorously opposed abolition of short selling. If no bears sold against foolish bidding or covered when there was foolish selling, he said, there would be "terrific swings" in the market. "The use of dummy names has advantages and disadvantages. If word got round that some bad actor was selling short, the market might fall out of bed." He said that pushing a stock up is as bad as pushing it down -"especially if it's done just at the close of day's market. The fellow out on Keokuk tells his brother over a stein...
...President Kent there is a great deal of the actor, also a genuineness sprung from the days when he was an engineer in Wyoming. Usually wearing a pepper & salt suit, he is full of tricks and stories. Salesmen under him marvel at his eloquence, his exciting vocabulary. Fox's bankers planned to watch him for several months before making him president but his air and accomplishments won them over in one-third of that time...
...Lawyer Day, Warren William in his first featured role gives a polished and jaunty impersonation. A large actor with a handsome profile resembling John Barrymore's, he has hitherto been cast in heroic or romantic roles (Honor of the Family, Beauty and the Boss, The Woman from Monte Carlo...
Back to earth comes David, not as David, to be sure, but as David's pious uncle. Since both parts are taken by the same actor (Thomas Mosely), the disguise is thin. He appears to Matt and Denny, members of the lynching mob, forgives them for their crime, pleads for a better understanding between the races. This action so moves Matt, the real murderer of the girl, that he and Denny decide that he (Matt) should be hanged. This is finally done with the same old rope in the same old tree where the Negro died...