Word: optional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...design of a ballet, with its successions of pirouettes, entrechats and other steps, is commonly recorded on paper. In the case of the ballets Massine had done while in de Basil's employ (Les Présages, Chorearthim, Cimarosiana, Cantes Russes), de Basil was entitled to an option. Massine retained exclusive rights to the popular Three-Cornered Hat (music by de Falla), Beau Danube (Strauss), La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini), designed prior to the de Basil connection...
...Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned by the. company to buy De Forest Radio Co. stock for 50? a share, then selling the stock at market prices and pocketing fat profits. Harris Hammond and three other directors were found liable for more than $2,000,000. "Tony" Biddle in 1935 compromised his claim and sailed...
...often politics not Law decides whether a Governor extradites a man wanted for trial in another State. Last week Law asserted its rights in two distant States. In California, Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb ruled Governor Frank F. Merriam had no option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East...
...George Macrae (Don Ameche), a successful musical comedy librettist, that Judith is wasting her time as a playwright. Although this impression is confirmed when Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North Winds, in which the principal characters all freeze to death, they take an option on it as a means of persuading Judith to sing in their forthcoming show. When both rehearsals and romance are upset by jealous Lulu Riley (Miss Hovick), Macrae gets everything running smoothly again by the miraculous expedient of converting North Winds into a hit musical...
Last week Cissy Patterson signed a contract leasing both the Herald and the Times for five years, with an option to purchase them at a predetermined price...