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Adams House will blossom forth again on Saturday evening with a novelty dance of circus motif. There will be dinner dancing from 7 to 12 o'clock with Ned Marshall's Orchestra. Patronesses will be Mrs. James P. Baxter, III, Mrs. Donald H. Wallace, and Mrs. Kenneth J. Conant...
...ordinary Ned-raising business convention was the 22nd annual meeting of the National Association of Waste Material Dealers in Chicago last week. "Our industry today is a profitless business," warned Chairman Louis Lippa gravely. "We've got to do something about it or else close up shop." More than 1,000 waste paper dealers, brokers in rags, old rails, cracked stoves, rusty boilers and smashed automobiles, listened soberly to his plan and found it good: let junkmen junk their NRA code. "We are making the first move to withdraw from the code authority," said Chairman Lippa. "The code...
...Vallee's most fervent admirers, Sweet Music contains other ingredients. The story investigates Skip Houston's mismanaged romance with a Chicago tap-dancer (Ann Dvorak). Through it scrambles a host of entertaining minor characters impersonated by a quorum of Warner Brothers' large roster of comedians, notably Ned Sparks, as the dancer's irascible manager, and Allen Jenkins, as Skip Houston's pressagent. Alice White, as a scatterbrained chorus girl, does the best acting in the picture. Of Sweet Music's 80 minutes, 20 are occupied by Vallee singing. Best of its six songs...
...attendance. Park Avenue rubbed elbows with Avenue A when 15,000 debutantes, ward heelers, American Legionaries, professional party-trotters, bearded Henry Latham Doherty, head of the national Ball Committee, and Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt mingled in the five ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...
...were, in short, violating the Sherman Law. After investigating the complaint, the Grand Jury last week indicted Warner Brothers, Paramount, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, seven of their subsidiaries and six major executives including President Harry Warner of Warner Brothers, Vice President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co., and President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp...