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Armed with the whimsical title "Madame Axel from Greece," the brothers Minsky no doubt felt their battle to be half won, and with characteristic lavishness they have placed another brilliant and scintillating extravaganza before the public. Of Greece or the Grecian damsel aforementioned there is not the slightest mention once the curtain has risen -- but the title is a good one, and it has a flavor all its own. This flavor is heightened by the customary sale during the intermission of artistic booklets ("the raciest, spiciest little novelty we've set at your disposal in a long time, gentlemen...
...Prince Axel of Denmark...
...talked with Mr. Sloan at the Refrigerator Show was Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, since the death of Ivar Kreuger Sweden's No. 1 tycoon. Mr. Wenner-Gren was not discouraged by his failure to sell his Elektrolux (spelled with a c in U. S.) refrigerator to Mr. Sloan. Mr. Wrenner-Gren eventually got his asking price when he sold to Servel, Inc. the U. S., Canadian and Cuban rights. Through this deal he became Servel's largest stockholder and later a director. After a series of reorganizations Servel emerged in 1928 as a $14,000,000 concern backed...
Before he got out of school in his home town of Uddevalla, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren had a shrewd eye for the main chance. Swedish legend relates how at the age of nine he developed a thriving business in baskets and ash trays woven from tin strips dumped outside herring canneries, how he organized his playmates to make and sell his product, how he thrashed them when their salesmanship was poor. Son of a Swedish count, he later worked in Gothenburg but, restless and energetic, went to Berlin to learn big business. Later, like Ivar Kreuger, he worked and traveled...
...world-citizen is regarded as a triumph for that citizen's country. Whether or not the Committee deals out its favors impartially, it obviously tries to rotate them. Last year the Nobel Prize in Literature went to England (the late John Galsworthy), the year before to Sweden (Erik Axel Karlfeldt), year before that to the U. S. (Sinclair Lewis). This year for the first time it went to a man without a country...