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...Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist Boutet de Monvel lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel...
...announced that in future payments will be determined annually. Its big subsidiary, United Gas Corp., halved its first preferred. Transamerica Corp. announced that while it could pay a dividend now it will not. Penick & Ford, Ltd. surprised Wall Street by doubling its usual 50? extra. Chesebrough Manufacturing and Bon Ami maintained their extra payments but Coca-Cola passed its usual $1 extra (blamed: taxation). R. H. Macy & Co. passed its usual 5% stock extra. Chesapeake & Ohio maintained its $2.50 rate and is the only U. S. road to pay the same dividend as in 1930. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific...
...Paramount) is a triumph of direction and decor which could have been accomplished only by that scowling, heavy-jowled Teuton who is Paramount's chief contribution to the civilized cinema, Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture?like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...
...scared all the men away. By some talent worth any amount of cleverness, Authoress Whipple has made old Heroine Louisa the kind of human being that human beings instinctively, almost unanimously admire. " 'Mmmm,' said Charles. 'The French have an expression "Bon comme le pain." When I heard it, I thought of you. You're good, like bread; you're essential, you know. Mother. The world couldn't get on without people like you.'" Readers of Greenbanks will close the book with a grateful nod, admit that Charles was absolutely right...
Fourth Game, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the 65-year-old bon vivant who owns the Yankees, cannot bear his team to lose, cannot bear to watch a close game, let alone a close World Series. Even to win in four straight games is too close for him until the fourth game is won. He begged his men to win last Sunday and end his terrible suspense. The Yankees obliged with all the trimmings...