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THE WORLD'S LARGEST BANK. SOME FACTS ABOUT ITS LEADERS.
Behind the news of the mergera of three great New York financial. Institutions, to form the Chase National Bank, largest in the world, lie inspiring personal stories of success-amazing in their contrast, yel typical of those democratic, progressive qualities called American.
In this gigantie consolidation, for instance, there are four out- standing leaders whose names now stand for business foresight. sound judgment, and driving dollar-power, Yet their be ginning were strangely different.
One was wealthy, two were poor, and onc was adequately financed. Two came from the middle-west; two from the east. John McHugh was an orphan and began working as railroad telegrapher. Winthrop W. Aldrich, U. S. Senator and xon of a financier, became a lawyer, Hei now is a brother-in-law of John! D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Began Careers as Bankers. Albert H. Wiggin and Charles) S. Met'ain, however, were bankers from the beginning of their ea- reers. They started as creand boys. Mellugh and Wiggin are
elderly now, but Aldrich and Me Cain, in their early forties,' are unusually young for their high of fices. The lafter pair wond LG college; the old-school financiers couldn't afford it.
Now, working together, these men are to be the principal figures in the merger which, temporarily at least, will lead by more than $600,000,000 in the international race for banking supremacy. The Chase National Bank, having ah- sorbed the Equitable Trust Com- pany, will be larger than the Nal Lional City Bank of New York.! second in rank, and the Midland Bank of London, a close third,
Resources of the Chase Nation- al Bank, after ratification of the merker by the stock hdders, will be in excess of $2,800,000,- 000. Since this sum is difficult to comprehend, inugine a solid line!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MAY 10th, 1930.
Here are the officers of the greatest financial institution
in the world, the newly consolidated Chase National Bank of New York.
John McHugh and Albert H. Wiggin, upper left and right, have been named chairmen of the executive com- mittee and the governing board. Winthrop W. Aldrich, lower left, has been named president of the organisation, and Charles S. McCain, lower right, chairman of the board of directors.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH. AN UNSPOILED LITTLE GIRL.
Although she is not quite four years old, little Princess Elizabeth, above, centre, is perhaps the most famous girl in the world. Her father, the Duke of York, upper right, and her mother, the Duchess of York, upper left, are seeing to it that she is being brought up as a happy, care-free youngster."
By Milton Bronner.
car, which she takes every after- London, Apr. 2nd.-The wives noon, unless a fog or a heavy rain of the delegates to the Naval Con-prevents. At present she ference had the rare privilege of appears in a furry beige-coloured taking tea with Queen Mary in coat and beige silk bonnet. She no Buckingham Palace the other day, longer sits on the lap of her nurse, but to the American women, at but on a sent by herself, staring least, there was one big disap-i with all her eyes at the passing not meet show, Her childish absorption is pointment-they did Princess Elizabeth, the most often shattered by the sight of a famous baby girl in the world. child waving to her. Then she
Shall not "Show Off." just as wildly waves back.
It so happens that when her¦ As fellow passengers with her, queenly grandmother entertained bosides her nurse she usually has the delegates' wives. Princess her big Teddy Bear, who has been Elizabeth was up north with her named Bertram, a smaHer one of mother. But even had she been pink plush, and a badly battered in London, the Duchess of York.wooden doll which she treasures and her grandmother, Queen Mary, because her grandfather, the King. have a fixed determination that gave it to her about a year ago. the child shall not be "shown off."
Kept Sentry Busy.
They want her to have a perfectly Occasionally, when she visits natural childhood. They want to her grandparents at Buckingham keep her unspoiled and spon-Palace, she plays around the gar- taneous and un-selfconscious.
dens. And that almost had a fatal
This among other reasons is effect on, one of the sentries the little princess why she is a joy to the photo- other day. The graphers who have the privilege of pussed the soldier and he promptly taking her pictures. The little stiffened up and gave the present girl, who is rapidly approaching jarms in the royal salute. The the age of four, does not have to child was not sure that this was te cajoled with toys and tricks intended for her. For all she for the camera. knew the man was doing this to into being still She just, as a matter of course, warm up, or as part of his regular falls into delightful natural poses duties. So she sauntered past him and beams with the joy of living again; fixing him with her big blue Hence every "shot" of her is a eyes. Once more the royal salute. of $10 bills, in the small Bize before he was named as its presi-¡ school vacations in various bank success.
Princess Elizabeth liked it. She currency, stretching completely dent. A native of Providence, R.Jobs. A native of Little Rock, |
She is not being brought up as thought it was very funny. So represent most of the Chase re. I. he is a son of Nelson W, Ald- Ark., he is a graduate of Erskine a lonely child, hedged away from for some ten minutes she saunter- people. Whenever her cousins, the ed back and forth past the man, saures, although there still would rien, for many years a U.S. Sena- College, S. C., and of Yale.
young sons of Princess Mary are who kept on saluting each time. be a mere million
left tor, and a recognized authority on
McCain's first job was the or-in town, there are rare doings in Just when he was getting very financial affairs.
ganisation of a bank in Prescott, Princess Elizabeth's
a nursery, fatigued,
non-commissioned
W. W. Aldrich, who will become
The chairman of the new board Ark. He helped · found other where old-fashioned romps are in officer noticed what was going on and order, followed by a tea for the and tactfully suggested to the president of the institution, is a of directors is to be Charles S. houses in the middle-west
children.
nurse that the child had better be lawyer as well as a banker. He McCain, another banker-from-boy- south, went to New York in 1926,
Waves at Crowds.
called off before she exhausted a was a member of the legal counsel hood. He was a messenger at 18 and was president of the National
very valuable member of the of the Equitable Trust Company jand spent all his subsequent Park Bank by 1927.
British Army!
around the world. That would
over.
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One of the little girl's biggest treats is the daily drive in a motor
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A.P.B. 19
ORIENTAL PLAYERS MAKE BIG HIT.
A PICTURESQUE
VIEW IN
OLD MEXICO:
The Pico de Orizaba (18,255ft), the highest mountain in Mexico, which is the most prominent feature in the landscape during the journey by rail from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. Tradition makes it the scene of the cremation by divine fire of the Aztec God of the
Air, Quetzalcoatl. For many years it was supposed to be the highest peak of the American continent. (Times copyright.).
Left, one of the dancers in Mei Lan Fang's company. Centre, one of the grotesque masks worn in the Chinese production. Right, Taisuke Kikuchi, Japanese actor, now ap-
pearing in New York,
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New York March 20. Globe passed down the centuries to be trotters, bent on seeing all the viewed and performed over, and world has to offer in the way of over again.
art and entertainment, can save As for the Japanese Players, time and travelling expenses at the they arrived unfortunately just moment by making a hasty tour upon the heels of Mr. Mel's more of Breadway.
When, during the current week, absorbing Chinese productions. the Japanese Players arrived from Heading this troupe of sword- the Orient with their "kan-geki" manipulators and highly technical plays, the gay white way became Fantomimists. Is the stately Tsu- tsui. His repertoire is more un- international in a large way.
Already, just around the corner, derstandable to the average Ameri Mei Lan-fang, China's greatest can theatregoer, since it has a actor, has established himself as greater plot-consciousness; a cer
tain. fraternity with the cinema,. the "vogue" of the winter season. Not since Duse and Bernhardt the grand guignol and the dance made solo appearances has an in- we know it. dividual artist attracted quite so "Kan-geki" plays have a certain much attention as "the pearl of melodramatic and blood-curdling the pear orchard." While the art quality, In spite of a certain of Mr. Mel follows an ancient clas- naivette and even sentimentality, sical pattern, his exquisite dance. The swordsmen have a familiar re- like pantomime. achieves a perfec-lationship with our own two-gun tion which the more esthetic wild-west heroes who never miss writers have linked with the clas- their man. Just so, the Japanese sical sculpture of the ancients hero. is expected to be quick with And, too, there is something of a his blade-even when its point to thrill in a play which has had a point with a diabolical démon... tan for 8,000 years,
are the Chinese presentations and pos- The themes lack the antiquity of
a definite mixture of the
Broadway's great successes forgotten within a couple of sea- sons, but the Chinese classics are
sess
modern.