Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...
...reasons why so much money is being poured into the stock market is that there are many new stocks to buy. Privately held, closed corporations are issuing stock, taking the public into partnership. Corporations that have long been publicly -owned are undertaking new financing for expansion purposes. And the merger trend-outstanding movement in current industry-continues as an important element in Industry's insatiable appetite for money. Of last week's new deals of various kinds, the following were of particular interest...
Charles James Rhoads, who shelved his lucrative partnership in Brown Bros. & Co. to take the $8,000 Commissionership of Indian Affairs...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...
...mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...