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...officially invited President Coolidge to attend the Pan-American Conference on International Law to be held in Havana in February, 1928. Six feet in height, heavily built, President Machado has, for his vigor of policy as well as physique, been termed "Mussolini of Cuba."* From Washington he went to Wall Street, to talk sugar...
...Wall Street. For those who do not know it already and for those who like to hear it repeated, this play dilates upon the fact that in Wall Street there is little or no virtue. Take John H. Perry (Arthur Hohl) for instance. The grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled...
Even Mr. Durant's explanation of why he is promoting the new Star Six and backing Consolidated Motors Inc. met with dubiety. He advertised: "The name Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors...
Martin Henderson (Fritz Williams), eagle of finance, from his steel cleft high above Wall Street's sidewalk, connives cold-blooded revolution in Mexico. His motive: to irritate the U. S. into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president...
...creating the creative mood in others by his prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco showing the evolution of Living Church out of Theatre...