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...explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity. The story: a young architect (Gene Raymond) and his wife are pressed for funds. She goes into a law office, swiftly becomes a celebrated attorney. Her husband, slighted by her friends, humiliated by her success, takes to drink, dancing girls, the profession of crooning. When his mistress strangles herself by accident, he is accused...
Since the futile reorganization last year Architect Benjamin Marshall has really run the Drake. An assiduously bohemian gentleman in a flowing black tie, he lives in a famed pink house on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wilmette. His particular joys are a ship-cabin taproom and a handsome table that sinks through the floor. Ben Marshall lightened the tone of the Drake, installed an oyster bar, started serving 50? buffet lunches and $1 buffet Thursday night dinners which were jammed all last winter. It was also Ben Marshall & friends who, under a lease from Metropolitan Life, reopened the Blackstone...
Until last year the Brothers Drake held a contract to manage the Drake Hotel for $40,000 a year, plus living expenses for them and their families and 10% of all profits in excess of dividends. After $300,000 of back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their...
Died. David Edward Town, 62, executive chairman of Hearst Corporations, board chairman of International Magazine Co. (Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Motor, Motor Boating, American Architect, American Druggist); of a blood infection; in Manhattan...
...voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...