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...payroll for another $1,000. He was "loaned" $10,000, promised one-third ($700,000 worth) of Equitable's common stock to dispose of as he liked. He was promised campaign contributions on the eve of the Walker election and so lavishly "entertained" that Entertainer J. Allan Smith was dropped from the syndicate. Throughout these dealings, which ended when the syndicate and Mayor Walker failed to get sufficient financial backing for the State Transit Commission to countenance the project, telegrams referred, apparently meaning Mayor Walker, to "John's [Senator Hastings'] boy friend." Last week it was also...
...Trust Co. (not connected with the bus firm), Mr. Seabury produced evidence that in August, 1927, a fortnight after "Boy Friend" Walker had succeeded in getting a franchise for Equitable Coach Co., but a day before his signature made the franchise effective, the syndicate's "entertainer," one J. Allan Smith, bought the Mayor's $10,000 letter of credit. Next day the Mayor sailed for Europe on a junket which proved so costly that Mr. Smith had to settle an overdraft...
Reserved for Ladies (Paramount British) is a witty statement of the social status of a prince of London headwaiters (Leslie Howard) who falls in love incognito with a South African heiress (Elizabeth Allan). He follows her from shop to shop, picking up things she drops; to her hotel (whose dining-room autocrat he is); to the Austrian Tyrol. He is making progress against her sniggers when an incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting...
...with a big wound in the side, the inference being that in brushing himself against the side of the ship he had run into the side propeller. I had not meant to be quite so chatty on the subject but he really was an interesting old boy. E. M. ALLAN...
Tech--Stroke, Philip Cook '33; 7, Roland Glenn '33; 6, Allan Mowatt '34; 5, Charles Miller '33; 4, John Regan '33; 3, Charles Lucke '34; 2, Richard Valentine '33; bow, William Pleasants '33; cox, James Dunlap...