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...FORTUNE and TIME. . . . I'm asked to every State ball, But I'm just behind the eight-ball with you. Call It a Day (by Dodie Smith; Theatre Guild, producer) combines all the good things from a generation of British domestic comedies, beautifully packaged in a tip-top production by the Theatre Guild. What it lacks in novelty, it more than makes up in size (nine scenes) and wholesomeness. From the innocent affair between the Hilton's dog and the neighbor's bitch to the momentary missteps of Dorothy and Roger Hilton themselves, Call...
...Opera gives a performance. They have no tickets and they need none. A leader passes them in, huggermugger, at the 39th Street entrance before the carriage trade arrives. Inside, they station themselves on either side of the house, as near the stage as possible. Perhaps 15 climb to the tip-top gallery. Upstairs or downstairs their job is the same-to clap...
...June 17, 1932, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law making kidnapping across state lines a Federal felony. This act pitted the U. S. Government directly against the virulent "snatch" racket for the first time. Free from the corruption of local politics, superbly trained and equipped with tip-top morale, the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation buckled to its new and difficult work with a will. Up to last week it had acted in 31 kidnapping cases, returned alive all but one kidnappee. Of the 74 "snatchers" whom Federal agents had helped to catch and convict, two had been...
...whiskey was active with no restrictions on short-selling or sharp practice. A winner of a case of bourbon was Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank. In the golf tournament Jess Sweetser, onetime British amateur champion and now of Shields & Co., won low gross with a 73. Only tip-top Manhattan bondmen enjoy the Sleepy Hollow jamboree but the. Bond Club's annual publication - the " Bawl Street Journal-is sold in every important financial city in the land and is even ordered from Europe, China, Brazil. Written largely by bankers, brokers and their employes and printed...
...left to the citizens of Atlanta, whither Man of the Year Johnson went on his Southern speaking tour, to hear him in tip-top forensic form...