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George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...
Aviation Corp., nominally a $200,000,000 holding and development company underwritten by Lehman Bros, and W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. They will at first offer only $40,000,000 of stock to buy substantial interests in all branches of aviation (plane manufacture, motors, accessories, transport). William Averell Harriman is chairman of the directorate, Robert Lehman chairman of the executive committee...
Blumenthals. Famed among cocoa makers are the Hershey Chocolate Co., the Walter Baker Co. (Postum subsidiary) and the Blumenthal Bros. There are five Blumenthals, Joseph, Meyer, Aaron, M. I., and Jacob; but Joseph, the president, is more potent than his brethren. Last week he bustled busily over the Exchange. He is a small, thin man (hardly five feet tall) with a brown suit which he has worn so consistently that it is indelibly associated with him. Of German descent, he is an Orthodox Jew, and rarely visits the Exchange on Saturdays except when there is a very threatening bear market...
...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...
...Copper Co. (Guggenheim) and Braden Copper Mines Co., located in the Province of O'Higgins, Chile. In 1927 these companies produced 235.358 tons of copper, about 13½% of the world's total production. Other companies indirectly controlled produced an additional 179,636 tons. Selling agent for Kennecott is Guggenheim Bros. A Kennecott director and member of the finance and executive committees is Solomon R. Guggenheim. Kennecott's aggregate net income...