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...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
...daily newspapers have a city-wide Guild contract, publishers abruptly ended prolonged negotiations for a new contract. Having gained important wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept a Guild-shop clause...
Three years ago Colonel Tim McCoy of cinema and circus fame went to Providence, R. I. as a headliner in Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus. There he met Benjamin Ladd Cook, amateur sportsman, former M. F. H.. and 30-year associate in Hornblower & Weeks. The two men discussed circuses and horses, and McCoy wound up by saying that what the U. S. needed was an honest-to-God wild west show. Last "authentic" wild west show. McCoy insisted, had been...
Buffalo Bill's in 1913. Last one of any kind, the "101," had folded in 1931. Fired by the idea, the two of them decided to do something about it. Last fall Cook left Hornblower & Weeks, McCoy left Ringling Bros. McCoy threw $100,000 of his own money into the venture, acquired 51% of the stock. Cook approached 150 sportsmen and men of substance to buy the remaining 49%, landed...
...years" at Muhlenberg College. He plays poor golf, does not ride to hounds, has no relatives at J. P. Morgan's. At 27 he has been in Wall Street barely long enough to learn the ropes with his Uncle Harold at Hoppin Bros. Last week young Broker Haughey found himself scheduled to get Richard Whitney's seat on the New York Stock Exchange.. He had not asked for it, had merely filed a bid of $59,000. Since this was $7,000 above the previous sale, which had set a 20-year low, the Exchange quickly accepted...