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Sirs: The following will correct the impression given by your article pp. 54 and 56, TIME, July 6, that Grocer Saunders of Memphis was the first in the "Self Serve" type of grocery. The fact is that Lutey Bros., Grocers, Butte, Mont., originated and operated under this plan from February 1912. This was four years before the advent of the Saunders Stores. Mr. Saunders adopted this idea very successfully, after learning about its results with Lutey Bros., Butte. This innovation in grocery retailing by Lutey Bros, was commented upon by trade journals- The American Grocer, New York, devoted several pages...
...They next heard a "vested chorus" of Los Angeles nurses, who had practiced for months, gently sing Green Cathedral. Cinemactress Kay Francis who plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American Nurses' Association, talked about "the old pioneer spirit" which stirred the nurses to go West for their conventions. Dr. Annie Warburton Goodrich, 70, dean-emeritus of Yale's School of Nursing, stirred them deeply...
Sons o' Guns (Warner Bros.). People who are amused by the fact that Joe E. Brown's mouth resembles an omelet will not mind this version of a musicomedy in which the late Jack Donahue danced in 1929-30. Reluctantly embroiled in the War, Brown participates in a number of gags which culminate in his impersonating a British officer, getting involved in a battle, impersonating a German officer, bringing a German regiment back to the U. S. lines. Good pantomime: Brown, convinced that he is to be shot, rehearsing the way he will smoke a last cigaret with...
Died. Arthur Lehman, 63, Manhattan financier (Lehman Bros."), brother of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman; of pulmonary embolism; in Manhattan...
During the past few months, gains in business volume* have lofted hopes that Price Bros, may soon be in the black again. Fortnight ago a new combination jumped into the picture. Front for this group was a new company called Pacona Ltd., sponsored by the Manhattan firm of Lehman Bros., and Canadian affiliates of Aluminum Co. of America, including Saguenay Power Co., Price's largest unsecured creditor. Pacona's offer was the answer to a protective committee's dream: cash for principal, back interest and all committee expenses...