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Wiggin & Clarke. The Senators had even more trouble following their inquisitor's next revelation, for he led them through the tropical financing of General Theatres Equipment, Inc. Under the swift hand of Harley Lyman Clarke, who had previously garnered a fortune in utility promotion, G. T. E. swelled from a small concern with a promising film projector into an overripe holding company controlling among other things Fox Film Corp. Its decline & fall pulled down the old stock exchange houses of Pynchon & Co. and West & Co. and cost Chase Bank more millions than Mr. Wiggin cares to remember...
...giving the Yale varsity practice against Army formations, the Yale scrub squad assumed the names of Army players. But no scrub could have impersonated Halfback Jack Buckler vividly enough to prepare Yale for what the real Buckler did last week. Repeatedly swift-footed Buckler took the ball on the run, drew back his arm as if to pass. While the Yale defense scattered. Buckler might streak around end. Or he might pass, while sprinting like a jackrabbit. Seven times his passes plumped into Army hands for total gains of 148 yd. Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried...
Divine Drudge (by Vicki Baum & John Golden; John Golden, producer). Based on a Baum novel (And Life Goes On) serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine this play has none of the swift movement, the arresting reality which made Grand Hotel a smash hit and a pattern for imitators. It unfolds a devious tale about a smalltown German doctor (Walter Abel) and his wife (Mady Christians). For seven years she has assisted him in perfecting what he believes to be a momentous medical discovery. Suddenly she runs away from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home...
...Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder hired to make the market for his newly-issued U. S. Steel...
...officers have as yet been elected for the club, but Elijah Swift, Jr. 2G., Daniel S. Eppelsheimer, gr. E.S., and Elbert P. Little '34, the organizers of the club will act as an executive committee...