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...without significance that two-minded Playwright Barry, when in the U. S., lives in smart Mt. Kisco, a Manhattan suburb alive with stockbrokers. One of his closest cronies is his classmate Robert A. Lovett of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co , banking house. And although no one loves the free life more than Playwright Barry, paradoxically he drives as shrewd a bargain for his work as Edgar Wallace...
Cinema advertising executives were moved to sharp replies. S. Charles Ein-feld, advertising and publicity director of Warner Bros., pointed out that Macy's methods were impractical for the cinema, which sells one thing at a time, cannot advertise cut-rates. Hal Home, advertising and publicity director of United Artists, said the rise of Macy's could be entitled "From Gags to Riches," pointed out that advertisement for pictures must "get all selling points over before the picture opens," that films cannot, like stores, build up goodwill. Last week the controversy continued when Kenneth Collins addressed a luncheon...
...company needed money and could not get it while the inquiry in Chile was under way, its monopoly threatened. Last week credit was forthcoming from three syndicates. Five million pounds (about $17,000,000) was advanced by J. Henry Schroder & Co., J. P. Morgan & Co., the Rothschilds and Baring Bros. Twelve million dollars more came from National City Bank of New York and Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.; $4,500,000 more from Bankers Trust Co. and Guaranty Trust Co. Solomon R. Guggenheim and his able new partner Medley G. B. Whelpley, president of American Express Bank & Trust Co. until...
Fastest? While Pilot Lowell R. Bayles flashed back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France...
...Rockne Six. Its maker: a subsidiary of Studebaker Corp. Its sales chief: George M. Graham, previously sales manager for Willys-Overland, assisted by Frank L. Wiethoff. Its production manager and engineer: R. A. Vail and R. C. Cole, who were in charge of the same departments in Dodge Bros, before it was absorbed by Chrysler...