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...Omoolu's compatriots in Africa, according to John McClain, the New York Sun's shipnews reporter who press-agented the picture while it was being made, were of a much happier disposition. When rushes of the film were shown on safari, the natives rolled on the ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison...
Sharp selling brought Richfield Oil common stock to a new low of $2¼ last week. Brokers recalled its happier days when a pool, said to have been the first operated by William Crapo Durant's son R. ("Cliff"), sent it up to 54⅛ in 1928. Receiver McDuffie stopped reports that he would resign from Pacific Western, said eventually Richfield's creditors will be paid in full...
...Emperor has sent a "sharp message" that unless scapegrace King Carol of Rumania adopts a different attitude toward the Queen who is no longer his wife, she, Queen Helen, will be invited to reside in England under the august protection of His Majesty. Doubtless Queen Helen would be far happier in the smart, cozy London home of her brother King George II than she has ever been at Bucharest. King Carol's elder brother-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, was scheduled to go to Rumania last week, but suddenly "deferred" his visit. This change in plans was volubly...
...forget that the most wonderful and powerful machine in the world is the men and women themselves. . . . Industrial conflict is the greatest waste in industry. . . . The higher purpose of industry is to provide satisfaction of life to human beings. . . . Unless industry makes living men and women and children happier, it cannot excuse its failure by pleading that at least it has kept them alive...
...Freeman of the City of London; organized the first battalion of Volunteers at outbreak of war; keenly interested in all questions affecting Labour: lectures on practical lines of the problem between Capital and Labour; advocate for better living conditions for the workers, better paying and training for teachers, and happier child-life among the masses...