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...back to the small town where he was raised, vaguely ambitious to get away to the city and make a name for himself, but little things prevent it. After 20 years, he is still talking about leaving, still accepting vegetables in payment of his fees. When Letty McGinnis (Dorothy Jordan)-at whose birth he performed a Caesarean operation-gets into trouble with young Bill Radford, Dr. Watt has to stay on and see that she recovers from drinking poison. Bill marries Letty. When Bill begins misbehaving and Letty falls ill, it is Dr. Watt, not his son Jimmy, grown into...
...tycoon named Dan Packard and his Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags in his forepaws. Between the time that she makes her arrangements and the time her guests assemble in the drawing room, the picture has revealed their private lives, rearranged their relations with each other. Carlotta...
...producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale...
...over the country on how retailing could be done profitably. In the merger era of 1928 he came to the conclusion that department stores like everything else could be profitably run in chains. So 22 stores straddling the U. S. from Seattle to Greensboro. N. C.-largest of them Jordan Marsh of Boston-were merged in Hahn Department Stores, Inc. Lehman Brothers and Prince & Whitely floated the stock. Lew Hahn became president. Like many a boom-launched ship, it ran into rough water. The stores' pre-Depression earnings of $6,000,000 a year promptly fell...
...Finlayson, R. D. Stackpole, J. S. Frame, D. F. Rogers, and S. D. Peirce. The Novice Singles attracted the greatest field, including V. G. Balbont, J. Bremmer, E. C. Carter, F. J. Collins, H. B. Dalby, W. G. Davis, H. L. Farr, H. W. Frederick, X, Y. Jordan E A. Kratovil, K. L. Magnus, H. S, Miller, S. B. Myers, J. G. Park, R. L. Wheelock, F. H. White, and R. S. Wolcott...