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...half interest in a filling station. He goes to work at the filling station every day and when he comes home he hides his overalls, tells lies about where he has been. In the end he beats out the man who runs the filling station across the street. His partner marries his daughter. Quietly literate dialog by Booth Tarkington helps the effect, but it is always Arliss who gives the little picture distinction. He finds many things to do that make moments and the character come alive: mummery with the medicine, which he carefully measures out. and then throws through...
...Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained...
...beard is now becoming part of the grave, punditical figure which Publisher Scripps suggests as he pens learned treatises on economics. Once more the organization is getting an Old Man. Something in the atmosphere of the Scripps-Howard offices suggests that this was necessary, that the subordinates feel that Partner Howard's flair has unduly (though unconsciously) eclipsed Partner Scripps's sterling worth. Howard for a story-yes-but Scripps for a policy. The order of their names in the partnership will probably be increasingly justified in the public mind...
...Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...
...returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner, Colyumist Broun sat near the speakers' table. Reminded of this, honest Colyumist Broun cried: "Oh, I must have got it from him! ... I couldn't remember...