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Retired. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 56, from the editorship of Harpers Magazine and the board-chairmanship of Harper & Bros., publishers. Editor Wells had been associated with Harper & Bros, since 1899, three years after his graduation from Yale. In 1919 he succeeded the late famed Henry Mills Alden as editor of the magazine. He functioned as general literary adviser in Harpers' book publishing, led the firm's financial rehabilitation...
...California, oldtime railroad executive, president of Union Oil Associates, an organizer and onetime (1927-28) president of the American Petroleum Institute; of heart disease; in Los Angeles, Calif. Died. Bernard Albert Eckhart. 79, president of B. A. Eckhart Milling Co.. director of many a big corporation (Armour, Dodge Bros., Montgomery Ward, Erie Railroad), onetime (1924) assistant treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of heart disease; in Chicago. Onetime State Senator (1887-89), he was active in civic and State affairs, donor of Eckhart Science Hall at the University of Chicago...
...John Dodge, a widower, took unto himself a second wife, Mathilda Rausch of Detroit. When two years after his death in 1922 the Dodge Bros, motor interests were sold for $120,000,000, his widow was one of the richest women in the U. S. She took an active part in the disposal of the company, showed business acumen. That same year she married Alfred George Wilson of Detroit. She became a director of Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. (then Fidelity Trust Co.), later was elected to the board of Graham-Paige Motor Corp. She built the Wilson Theatre in Detroit...
...based on trickery. . . . [Companies] should state clearly in their newspaper advertisements, in the theatre lobbies, and on the films themselves that advertising films, paid for by the sponsors, are being shown." So far, advertising films of the type alarming to Producer Castle have been produced only by Warner Bros, and Paramount. Paramount samples: a series entitled Movie Memories, comprising old newsreels, early shots of current stars, by courtesy of Liggett & Myers; My Merrie Oldsmobile, song cartoon; Jolt for General Germ, cartoon extolling Lysol. Warner Bros, samples: one-reel plays advertising Chesterfields; On the Slopes of the Andes, a coffee cultivation...
...dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were thumped like drums - "banner year . . . ," "greatest ever. . . ." Out of all of which the principal producers promised the following number of full-length films for 1931-32: Fox 48 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 48 Paramount 70 Warner Bros. 35 First National 35 RKO Radio 36 RKO Pathe 21 Columbia 26 Producers do not consider that television will come into contact with films for a long time yet. Paramount believes more pictures should have children in them and more attention should be paid to woman's share...