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With producers scornfully silent, the loudest anti-Equity voice was Cinemactor Tully Marshall's. Fortnight ago, having accepted a non-Equity Warner Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule...
Married. Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, lately divorced (TIME, July 15); to Carlotta Monterey, actress (The Hairy Ape), divorced wife of Illustrator Ralph Barton (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); in Paris. In a pre-nuptial contract, world-wandering Playwright O'Neill agreed to lease for 13 years the great Chateau de Plessis at St. Antoine Du Rocher, 25 miles from Tours, with a 600-acre game preserve. Miss Monterey also required installation of a roof garden, gymnasium, swimming pool...
Judge Arthur McComb of Los Angeles Superior Court ordered Actor Marshall to appear before him on July 29 to show why he should not be enjoined from fulfilling his Warner Brothers contract. But the judge issued no restraints or injunctions...
Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April...
Extraordinary is this figure, even more extraordinary is Commercial National's ability to contract for such rental after only six months of business life. The bank was founded at the beginning of the present year-a year notable not for the appearance of new banks but for the disappearance (via merger) of long-established banking institutions. Since April 12, 1926, when Chase National absorbed Mechanics & Metals National, there have been 50 bank mergers in New York. In 33 of these mergers the smaller bank has completely lost its identity. Furthermore, new mergers are constantly expected, with the banking trend...