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...second classic example of banker-management was rehashed in the St. Louis-San Francisco bankruptcy hearing in Manhattan. Late in 1925 Frisco's Edward Norphlet Brown, alarmed over the "strategic" situation in his territory, proposed to his bankers that they purchase working control of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, whose 8,330 miles of line far exceeded Frisco's 5,859 miles. For James ("Jimmy") Speyer, the shrewd, dapper, little 73-year-old banker who, for all practical purposes, is Speyer & Co., that deal proved highly profitable. From commissions and the firm's own speculative commitments, Speyer...
...entirely to Charles Laughton's superbly skillful performance as the hero. It is not due entirely to the intonations supplied in minor parts by Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young. The truth is that Ruggles of Red Gap is a U. S. classic which tempts its actors to perfection as inevitably as it tempts audiences to approval. The best that can be said of this picture, the third cinema version of Ruggles, is that, like David Copperfield, it does justice to its original; the least is that no future cinema treatment of the valet who becomes...
...sure where he was standing either. Was it possible that the inventive, fertile mind of Franklin Roosevelt had run out of plans? With the wheels of Government bogged down, with the next move clearly up to him, the President arrived back in Washington's Union Station through whose classic colonnades the winds of rumor whistled shrilly. The President was about to address the nation by radio. He was not. The President was going to take advantage of a new "area of compromise." He was not. The President had lost his nerve for pouring out fruitless Government billions, was planning...
Francis' unattractive wife, Claude, was kept too busy bearing him seven children to give him any cause for jealousy. But the beauteous Françoise de Foix, one of his mistresses, did. Francis' royal handling of an embarrassingly bourgeois situation became a classic. The intruder, surprised by Francis' unexpected knock, took shelter in the fireplace, which was screened by leafy boughs. Francis, as if unaware that anything was amiss, treated Françoise in his usual fashion, then relieved himself into the fireplace...
...Buck" Duke had left up North. At Somerville,N. J. was Mr. Duke's 5,000-acre estate with its statues, its fountains, its 35 miles of paved road. At Newport was Mr. Duke's summer place. In Manhattan, at No. i East 78th St., was the classic marble palace "Buck" Duke built for his wife 25 years ago, with its tapestry-hung salons, winding marble staircases, rose-&-gold elevator. And in that house was "Buck" Duke's only child, the richest girl in the world...