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Because Stock Broker M. Boyd Zinman made money as the result of a confidential conversation that he happened to overhear on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the governors of the Exchange last week suspended him from trading there for one year. His conduct and proceedings were "inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade," they said...
...Official White House Spokesman did not mention it last week, but doubtless the President and Mrs. Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie...
William Gillette, actor: "The ancient legend that actors are kindhearted, especially to one another, came to light again last week when I charged a play broker with grand larceny because he kept $1,000 which I had instructed him to give to Clare Kummer, actress and playwright. In 1925, Miss Kummer was in financial straits, when the opening of one of her plays was delayed. I wanted to assist her with $1,000, but I did not wish her to know it, so I used an intermediary...
Died. Mrs. Grace Woodville Read Robinson, 60, broker, member of Women's Bond Club, wife of historian James Harvey Robinson (author of The Mind in the Making, 1921) ; in Manhattan...
...Affair of the Follies (Billie Dove). The heroine, a beautous chorus girl, is subjected to the usual rigors of the chase-the stock broker (Lewis Stone), the poor but honest hero (Lloyd Hughes). She gives up her $150-a-week job to try living on the hero's $60, thereby makes the plutocrat dangerous, her husband mad. It ends according to the Will Hays standard, with wealth and happiness for the virtuous. The cast is engaging in spite of the scenario...