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Paris hotels were all more nearly full than at any time since 1929. Best rooms were taken, but rooms of sorts were still available to late comers, and the Government were rigidly keeping prices reasonable. Since Paris is the capital of fashion, females from all over the world are now...
Lucky the chorus girl who can persuade her wealthy benefactor to buy her a chinchilla wrap, one of the softest, most beautiful, most expensive of furs, also one of the least durable, one of the rarest. A chinchilla collar today costs $2,000, a coat $30,000. Chorus girls should...
Died. Rene Revillon, 48, director of Paris' Revillon Freres (furs), vice president of the Paris jewelry house of Louis Cartier whose daughter he married; in Manhattan.
Highest-paid business woman was Ethel V. Mars, president of Mars, Inc. (Milky Way chocolate bars). More famed for her racing stable than her corporate connection, which she inherited (TIME, Jan. 4), Mrs. Mars was paid $120,000. Not far below Mrs. Mars came Mrs. Lillian S. Dodge, cosmetician president...
Largely a convenient fiction is the statistical notion of "normal business." When depressions end, booms are usually just around the corner. Last week with Depression vanishing into memory, the portents of BOOM drummed excitingly throughout the land. Declared the president of the potent New York State Council of Retail Merchants...