1935
Bridgeport Fabricks, Inc., Bridgeport 1, Conn.
Here we are in April already with winter, such as it was in the East, behind us. Our file isn't particularly loaded this month but it has some interesting clippings.
A couple of speakers: Headline from the Pueblo, Colorado, Star-Journal—"Knife and
Fork Club Speaker is Noted Humorist". Turns out to be Hal Kennedy, described in the press notice as "the zany intellectual who draws more return engagements than any other speaker." He has appeared three times in three years at the New York Town Hall, Buffalo Advertising Club, Toledo Town Hall, Rochester Advertising Club and Detroit Town Hall. And again we quote—"Humorist that he is, Kennedy will entertain with his brilliant wit and endless chain of stories stemming from the 32 different positions he has held in the theater on his way from the bottom to the top. He has risen from a spear-carrier in Orson Welles' modern production of "Julius Caesar" to the position of playwright-producer-director." One of these days we've just got to get out and listen to the lad.
Speaker No. 2 is Maury Rapf, temporary resident in the vicinity of Hanover and film writer, who addressed a Tower Room audience on the subject "A Refugee Looks at Hollywood." Maury, as you undoubtedly know, has been writing for the screen since 1936. Recently he has turned out "Song of the South" and "How Dear to My Heart." His opinion of Hollywood, both present and future, is a gloomy one because movie-makers, firmly convinced that artistic successes don't make money resort more and more to formulas, smothering efforts to experiment creatively. Maury sees the salvation of Hollywood left in the hands of a few courageous, intelligent men who want to make good pictures and the public's growing demand for better fare.
On February 21 Hedda Hopper's column carried the following: "Bill Paley is mighty smart getting Harry Ackerman as Vice-President in charge of all coast to coast radio shows at CBS." This gives Harry a new title and new responsibility. Remember it was only a year ago that he left Young & Rubicam to join the network.
George Goodman, frequent Hanover visitor and owner of a floor covering business in Lawrence, Mass., has been elected President of the Greater Lawrence Community Chest. During February the Inn also reported visits by Sel Hannah, the old skimeister of Franconia, and Byron Tomlinson, up from Bridgeport.
A year ago we reported the tragic murder of George Margulis in a pay-roll hold-up in Cleveland. We have recently learned that the killer has been given the death sentence and his three accomplices life imprisonment.
Carl Spengeman has just joined the insurance company of George N. Gulick in Newark, N. J. as a Vice President. Carl will supervise the Life, Estate Analysis, and Group Insurance Division. Since the war Carl has been Assistant Merchandising Manager of Whitehouse & Hardy on New York's Fifth Avenue, but insurance has been his field and he is delighted to be back in it.
Don Rogers showed up at the last New York dinner escorted by Art Bamford. He was on a business trip through the East for Atkinson Milling Company and figures that from now on the trips will become fairly regular. For the benefit of Don and any others who may be heading toward New York this spring we repeat the schedule of class dinners at the Dartmouth Club: April 7, May 10 and June 8. Sometimes the crowd is large, sometimes small, but there's always a handful around to lift a friendly glass with a visitor from the outside world. And now
We've come to the end The curtains descend The typewriter goes in its case
We'll relax for a month And hope that just wonth There'll be news stacked all over the place
Secretary, Compton Advertising, Inc. 630 sth Ave., New York 20, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1001 North Eye St., Tacoma 3, Wash.
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