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Until the spring of 1930 Paramount-Publix was considered a model cinema company, issuing stock to pay for expansions. Then it was revealed that it had agreed to buy its stock back should it drop. The late William Wrigley Jr. (gum), Albert Davis Lasker (advertising) and John Daniel Hertz (taxicabs), all Chicagoans, began buying into Paramount. Their man was Sam Katz, of Chicago's Balaban & Katz chain of cinema theatres. At 13 he had played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with...
...manage the New York Yankees, Hornsby took his place. The Cubs finished third last year. Last week they were in second place when there occurred the customary culmination of a Hornsby managerial regime. President William Veeck of the Chicago Cubs, entrusted with running the team by Philip K. Wrigley who last winter inherited it from his father, announced that he had discharged Hornsby for "the best interests of the club...
...make up for the loss of Babe Herman -squat, red-faced Lewis ("Hack'') Wilson, who made 56 homeruns in 1930 and was last winter traded to St. Louis by the Chicago Cubs after a number of run-ins with Manager Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby and the late William Wrigley...
...conditioning players, have been starting a few days earlier every year. This season John McGraw created a shrewd sensation by taking his New York Giants to Los Angeles instead of San Antonio. There, last week, they played a pre-season series against the Chicago Cubs, which Philip K. Wrigley inherited from his father and which trains at Wrigley-owned Catalina Island. Later the Giants lost a night game to the Hollywood Stars...
...wish that Miss Romany and Mr. Strudurick, as Amelia, and Wrigley, had more veuve. They both needed something, one cocktail apiece, perhaps. Mr. Cothem, however, as the inebriated Smythe, and he remains drunk throughout the play, was an endless source of humor. Amy Loomis, as Elizabeth Tweedle, his co-merrymaker, adds the crown of light amusement. Her sister, serene and reticent, played by Miss Ray; the pompous lawyer, George Appleway, played by Mr. Bowker; the ultra-coldness of Miss. Pointeyter, as the retainer; and the perfect butler, Mr. Lucas, are able and amusing types of the sophisticated Victorianism which forms...