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Stockholm moviegoers attending the opening of Susan Lennox saw the star's mother, brother, sister-in-law, U. S. Minister John Motley Morehead (whose wife lately bought two famed paintings from the Ivar Kreuger estate). Absent, though in Sweden, was the star: Greta Garbo...
From Stockholm, near where she occupies an island home (not the home of the late Ivar Kreuger, which it was rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily...
Strictly speaking, His Serene Highness' action was to accept the estate in payment of a $1,000,000 loan he extended some years ago to his Cousin Baron Rudolf von Guttmann, then "Austria's Coal King," later ruined by the crash of Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8, 1931). Ivar Kreuger and other scamps have incorporated many a wildcat company under the lenient laws of Liechtenstein, kept lenient by shrewd, rich Prince Franz...
Hilda Aberg, pretty, red-headed Manhattan housekeeper for the late rascally Ivar Kreuger, was sued for $250,000 by the wife of a Capt. Hugo Sundstedt, airman, for alienating his affections "by promises of money and otherwise." Kreuger creditors pricked their ears. Mrs. Aberg indignantly denied all, said she had worked for Kreuger at $125 per month, received no gift or bequests from...
...trail of woe left by the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger widened last week to include the eight U. S. directors of International Match (TIME, March 21 et seq.). After months of inquiring into the financial and personal history of Matchmaker Kreuger, Oscar W. Ehrhorn, Federal referee in bankruptcy for stricken International Match, authorized Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. as trustee for the company to sue the directors for an accounting of $100,000,000 allegedly lost through their negligence. Irving Trust charged that an additional $35,000,000 was dissipated in 22 illegal dividends paid out of capital, sued...