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...things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways to invest his money. He lost a lot two years ago backing a musical show for his artist friend Peter Arno, but the experience did not diminish his liking for and friendship with such characters as Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart. His aunt, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhurst, backed The New Republic and Asia. Nephew Jock owns a substantial slice of Polo. Lately he was reported investigating the possibilities of founding a new cinema company...
...cinemaddicts unfamiliar with Hollywood fashions, it may seem strange that so sad a picture as The White Sister should have been entrusted for adaptation to Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart. It is not Stewart's writing which weakens the emotional quality of The White Sister. The picture's mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna...
...Fellow of Harvard College; Lewis Perry, headmaster of Exeter; G. H. Edgell '09, dean of the Faculty of Architecture; H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University; C. N. Greenough '98, master of Dunster House and professor of English; Charles Francis Adams '88, former secretary of the Navy; Ogden L. Mills '04, former secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Hoover; Eliot Wadsworth '90, former assistant secretary of the Treasury; and Leverett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
...Ogden Livingston Mills, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, large holder of National Biscuit stock inherited from his father, became a National Biscuit director...
Hoover visitors: Ogden Livingston Mills, Patrick Jay Hurley, Walter Folger Brown, George Barr Baker, Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Edgar Rickard (Hoover financial adviser), unnamed offerers of business connections, many a charitable organization seeking backing...