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...Frisco Jenny (Warner) is a slightly revised version of two earlier Ruth Chatterton pictures-Madame X, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small son, and Once a Lady, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small daughter. In Frisco Jenny, Ruth Chatterton lives in California and acts as a procuress-first to provide bread and mittens for her small illegitimate whippersnapper; then, from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district...
...cash & marketable securities of $51,000,000, voted the regular 25? payment. Next day in a radio salesmeeting over a national network Chairman Walter P. Chrysler told his 75,000 dealers and salesmen that the new Plymouth was base priced at $495, that price reductions averaged $60. Frisco Turnabout. The sprawling St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., which owns rail enough to double-span the distance between Berlin and Bagdad, averted a receivership action two months ago. Last week it performed a turnabout. Its management went to Federal Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris of St. Louis, the judge who gave...
...Schumann-Heink, Fremstad, Gadski, Sembrich. Caruso, the de Reszkes. Early one morning during the third visit the earth started rumbling and quaking, knocked the entire company out of bed, frightened Enrico Caruso so badly that even though he was offered $25,000 he would not go back to 'Frisco...
...Frisco simply could not earn interest on its $293,000,000 worth of bonds. Although the road's capitalization of about $70,500 per mile (the system has some 5,890 miles of track) is lower than the $80,300 average of all Class I roads, its density of traffic has never been great and the 3-to-1 ratio of bonds to stocks in the capitalization is unwieldy. When Reconstruction Finance Corp. loaned money to the Frisco last April it stipulated that by July 1 the company must find a way to lower its fixed charges if it wished...
Last week the I. C. C. approved an R. F. C. loan of $3,390,000, enough to enable the Frisco to meet its July 1 charges. The essence of Chairman Brown's plan is that some of Frisco's big creditors are to extend it an interest moratorium on the prior lien and consolidated bonds. The difficulty of working out this simple idea lay in making the terms of the moratorium fair to the many different classes of creditors, most of whom must make special sacrifices. For the next five years Frisco's fixed charges will be about...