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Jewel Robbery (Warner Bros.) recommends to tycoons' velvet-cased wives and to wellspoken jewel robbers that they get together. Kay Francis is a Viennese who has a husband and a lover but is looking for a Man. She identifies herself as "shallow and weak" but a Woman. After a romp in a morning bath three feet deep in suds, a relay encased in towels from maid to maid, a gradual insinuation into the usual clothing and some gay prattle with a friend, Kay Francis toward evening goes to a jewel shop with husband, lover and friend. She meets...
...Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations...
Brothers Warner. To drive home his contention that corporate officials capitalize their "inside" knowledge in stock-market speculation, Counsel Gray haled President Harry M. Warner of Warner Bros, (films) before the Committee. A onetime shoemaker, Cineman Warner admitted that he and his brothers, Albert & Jack, had made $7,500,000 in 1930 by disposing of most of their holdings early in the year, repurchasing at lower prices. Pointing out that the dividend had been passed after the Warners sold out, Counsel Gray insisted that President Warner must have been aware of impending action. President Warner strenuously denied...
...collaborated with his staffmate James Thurber in writing a book called Is Sex Necessary? Writer White noticed that Writer Thurber had 1 habit of nervously scribbling little figures and throwing them in the wastepaper basket. Writer White fished them out, found them amusing enough to save. Publishers Harper & Bros, also found Writer Thurber's hastily scrawled figures amusing, used them to illustrate Is Sex Necessary? Since then the sketchy, slightly neurotic illustrations of Writer Thurber have appeared regularly in The New Yorker, won wide recognition...
...Last week Miss Ruth Fallen (daughter) sued Perry Spencer, manager of Warner Bros, theatre in Syracuse, for criminal libel, charging that he advertised The Mouthpiece as her father's actual private life...