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...unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History of Art. To the general public Walter Pach is not a painter...
Tiger Shark (Warner Bros.) is a bloody cinema of tuna fishing in trawlers out of Southern California's San Diego. Edward G. Robinson is a Portuguese captain who saves Richard Arlen from the sharks, loses a hand to them, is married by Zita Johann for gratitude, not for love. When he finds that Arlen, his best friend, is in love with his wife, he bashes him with his hooked stump and throws him to the sharks, himself falls to them and dies of the attentions of a shark that crawls up his back as he is pulled back into...
Married. Alfredo Codona, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey aerial trapezist; and his partner Vera Bruce; in San Antonio...
Noah Haynes Swayne, 60, resigned as president of Burns Bros., largest coal distributor in the U.S. ("Burns Coal Burns'"). An oldtime anthracite man, Mr. Swayne has held high positions in many coal trade associations and clubs, is known as a clever postprandial speaker. He has delivered several sermons in Philadelphia churches. He possesses an excellent bass-baritone, has gone on tours singing Negro songs, lecturing. His father was General Wager Swayne, Military Governor of Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president...
Largest maker of dress silks is Stehli Silks Corp. Susquehanna, Schwarzenbach Huber & Co., Cheney Bros., C. K. Eagle are all large silk makers, but their business is less specialized. In 1929 Stehli sold 14,000,000 yards-enough for 5,000,000 dresses. About three-fourths was sold to dress manufacturers, one-fourth to stores for over-the-counter distribution. Their annual volume is nearly $25,000,000. The business was founded by Statthalter Rudolph Stehli in Obfelden, Switzerland, in 1837, has remained in the family ever since. The company now has 3, 500 looms scattered through Switzerland, Italy, Germany...