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...charges made last week were that Sonora Products Corp. (then Acoustic Products Co.) arranged to buy 200,000 shares of De Forest Radio Co. stock at 50? a share, but that the defendants took the stock themselves, sold it at big profits without telling shareholders or other directors. On an investment of $25,000 Mr. Biddle is supposed to have made a profit of $100,000. Irving Trust also claims that general mismanagement cost Sonora Products Corp. $3,000,000 in two years, that now creditors can get but 25? on the dollar...
Teaching professionals were quickly eliminated from the U. S. Professional Championship at Forest Hills last week. In the best quarter-final match, Karel Kozeluh, who considered himself disgraced by Tilden's beatings and said he would never return to the U. S. unless he won the tournament, defeated Francis Hunter in four sets. Howard Kinsey beat Albert Burke, able Irish professional attached to the Deauville Sporting Club in France and rated as Europe's second best pro. In the semifinals, four "playing professionals" proceeded to eliminate each other in a manner that was almost a foregone conclusion...
Onwentsia Club in smart Lake Forest, polo has been less a one-man affair, more of a game, with Broker Charles Foster Glore and Major Frederic McLaughlin (Coffee, Irene Castle's husband) as guiding spirits. There were a few Army teams to play with, but by & large Chicago polo was unorganized. Major McLaughlin last winter decided something ought to be done. He suggested to President Louis Stoddard of the U. S. Polo Association that a series of international matches be played at Onwentsia. Mr. Stoddard said that would be fine but they would have to be financed. Major McLaughlin...
...Lake Forest went off to its cocktail and dinner parties devoutly hoping the Argentines would win on Wednesday so that there could be another Saturday game, another polo weekend...
...philosophic cow which not only sings falsetto and bass but also performs duets with itself will next November join that operatic zoo which includes the lyrical Forest Bird and the Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series...