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...week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly out of sight of most of this huge de luxe flotilla, which was policed far off the course, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger was racing Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour for the hideous 86-year-old silver pitcher which is the most prized sporting trophy in the world...
...Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from his killing to start a one-day corner on the gold market. When President Grant announces that the U. S. Treasury...
...fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt by turning a hose on them...
Died. Ernest von Delius, German auto racer who last month placed fourth in the Vanderbilt Cup race at Westbury, L. I.; of injuries after an accident in a race at Nurnberg; in Bonn, Germany...
Shrewd enough as a card player to have invented the "Vanderbilt Convention" at contract bridge, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt is no less canny as a yachtsman. When he sold his old boat to Chandler Hovey and ordered a new one, yachtsmen were well aware that he and his famed designer, W. Starling Burgess, must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America...