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Last week the story of Dr. Dewing's resignation broke through the screen of rumor. He had withdrawn gold before the bank holiday, not for his personal account, but as president of Chatham Water Co., to protect a construction contract which the company had undertaken. He redeposited the gold immediately after the bank holiday ended. Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School criticized his act as having made the School subject to possible public criticism, objected to his criticisms of Administration policies. Hence Dr. Dewing's resignation. Since Dr. Dewing was guilty of no lawless hoarding, some...
...receivership Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield is today Chicago's most famed hotel keeper. A shrewd and amusing businessman whose friends range from Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Accordionist Phil Baker, he owns the quiet, fashionable Ambassador East, the gayer Ambassador West where Ernie Byfield entertains leading stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last...
Every character that appears on the screen is female, but the play does not suffer; Hertha Thiele interprets the part of Manuela with great talent and understanding, and the principal, Emilia Unda, brings a terrorizing sincerity to the role. Dorothea Wieck, who enacts the part of the friendly Fraulein von Bernburg, which appeals to every one in the audience, shows a fearless idealism...
...seaman in two previous races. Members of the big crew of 32 were the Captain's daughter Marie Ann and one Elizabeth Jacobsen, 19, pretty, brawny daughter of a retired Brooklyn sea-captain. There were 14 other apprentices. On the voyage Villiers made a film with Miss Jacobsen (screen alias: Sonia Lind) cast as heroine. Captain de Cloux's chief rivals were the Herzogin Cecilie with which he had won the race five times and the 16-year-old Priwall, racing for the first time. He made Cape Horn in a fast 30 days. On the leg north...
Propped up behind a white hospital screen the flabby old gentleman gave his last newspaper interview...