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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Kroll, Kroll\'s, Babe entitled The Match King?
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conversations.value: The Match King: Though a lowly Chicago street cleaner, Swedish immigrant Paul Kroll (Warren William) is ambitious and unscrupulous.\nWhen a fellow employee is fired (due to one of Kroll\'s schemes), Kroll convinces his foreman (John Wray) to keep him on the payroll (officially at least) so they can split his salary.\nSoon there are eight "phantom" workers, and Kroll and his partner have amassed $460.\nHowever, Kroll has been romancing his partner\'s wife, Babe (Glenda Farrell), behind his back.\nMeanwhile, he has also been lying to the people of his hometown, telling them what a successful businessman he has become.\nAs a result, when the local match factory is in trouble, his uncle begs him to return and save it.\nKroll gets Babe to withdraw the money he has stolen, deceiving her into thinking they are running away together, then leaves her behind as he sails away to Sweden.\nBack home, he cons the local bank into giving him a loan to buy a second match factory so he can merge them.\nOnly his friend Erik Borg (Hardie Albright) knows the truth about Kroll\'s "success", so Kroll recruits him as his all-too-trusting second in command in his expanding business.\nEventually, Kroll owns all of the match factories in Sweden.\nHowever, his ambitions do not stop there.\nUsing information he obtains from beautiful, well-placed women he has charmed, he gains official match monopolies in first Poland, then Germany and other countries by offering loans to cash-strapped governments and bribes to corrupt officials.\nOne day, while dining with Ilse Wagner (Claire Dodd), one of his conquests, he is dazzled by the beauty of star actress Marta Molnar (Lili Damita).\nDespite her initial rebuffs, he goes to great lengths to win her heart, even hiring a celebrated "gypsy violinist" to serenade her.\nSo enamored is he that he dangerously neglects his business, financed by an ever-growing series of loans.\nHowever, he reluctantly returns his attention to his company.\nOne of his agents discovers an eccentric recluse named Christian Hobe (an uncredited Harry Beresford) has invented an everlasting match, so Kroll has him locked away as a madman.\nWhen the stock market crashes, Kroll can no longer obtain a bank loan.\nIn desperation, he buys $50 million in fake Italian bonds from forger Scarlatti (Harold Huber), whom he then dumps in the middle of a lake to drown.\nWith the bonds as collateral, he obtains a $40 million loan from an American bank.\nThen he thinks of retiring.\nHe asks Marta to marry him, only to discover that, in his frequent absences, she has fallen in love with Trino, the gypsy violinist.\nMuch worse, his forgeries are detected, and his American loan is canceled.\nKroll shoots himself on the balcony and his body tumbles into the gutter, where he started.
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conversations.value: The Match King: Though a lowly Chicago street cleaner, Swedish immigrant Paul Kroll (Warren William) is ambitious and unscrupulous.\nWhen a fellow employee is fired (due to one of Kroll\'s schemes), Kroll convinces his foreman (John Wray) to keep him on the payroll (officially at least) so they can split his salary.\nSoon there are eight "phantom" workers, and Kroll and his partner have amassed $460.\nHowever, Kroll has been romancing his partner\'s wife, Babe (Glenda Farrell), behind his back.\nMeanwhile, he has also been lying to the people of his hometown, telling them what a successful businessman he has become.\nAs a result, when the local match factory is in trouble, his uncle begs him to return and save it.\nKroll gets Babe to withdraw the money he has stolen, deceiving her into thinking they are running away together, then leaves her behind as he sails away to Sweden.\nBack home, he cons the local bank into giving him a loan to buy a second match factory so he can merge them.\nOnly his friend Erik Borg (Hardie Albright) knows the truth about Kroll\'s "success", so Kroll recruits him as his all-too-trusting second in command in his expanding business.\nEventually, Kroll owns all of the match factories in Sweden.\nHowever, his ambitions do not stop there.\nUsing information he obtains from beautiful, well-placed women he has charmed, he gains official match monopolies in first Poland, then Germany and other countries by offering loans to cash-strapped governments and bribes to corrupt officials.\nOne day, while dining with Ilse Wagner (Claire Dodd), one of his conquests, he is dazzled by the beauty of star actress Marta Molnar (Lili Damita).\nDespite her initial rebuffs, he goes to great lengths to win her heart, even hiring a celebrated "gypsy violinist" to serenade her.\nSo enamored is he that he dangerously neglects his business, financed by an ever-growing series of loans.\nHowever, he reluctantly returns his attention to his company.\nOne of his agents discovers an eccentric recluse named Christian Hobe (an uncredited Harry Beresford) has invented an everlasting match, so Kroll has him locked away as a madman.\nWhen the stock market crashes, Kroll can no longer obtain a bank loan.\nIn desperation, he buys $50 million in fake Italian bonds from forger Scarlatti (Harold Huber), whom he then dumps in the middle of a lake to drown.\nWith the bonds as collateral, he obtains a $40 million loan from an American bank.\nThen he thinks of retiring.\nHe asks Marta to marry him, only to discover that, in his frequent absences, she has fallen in love with Trino, the gypsy violinist.\nMuch worse, his forgeries are detected, and his American loan is canceled.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first four paragraphs for this book? Start with the sentence 'The Match King
  Berning, Albert D'.
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conversations.value: The Match King
  Berning, Albert D. (A.D.): audits International Match accounts; and sale of International Match's gold debentures; and International Match's financial statements; relations with IK; unaware of International Match losses; kept in ignorance of Garanta and Continental; European summer vacation with wife; adjusts IK's figures for Wisconsin investigators; charges IK separately for consulting work; unease over Garanta's debt to International Match; accepts IK's Swedish audit; and inspection of IK's Swedish operations; IK's supposed confiding in; meets Wendler in Sweden; and IK's offer of loan to France; and application for International Match's listing on New York Stock Exchange; and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; and Durant's questioning Kreuger & Toll's financial statements; nervous breakdown on summer trip to Stockholm (1929); gifts from IK; partnership in Ernst and Ernst; inspects IK's businesses throughout Europe; and transfer of profits between International Match and Swedish Match; visits Stockholm unannounced; IK sends income statements to; and International Match's marketable securities; supports IK; and merger between L. M. Ericsson and IT & T; inspects documents in Stockholm; and IK's collapse; and IK's final trip to Europe; submits invoices to IK; testifies at investigation into IK's affairs; later career; and IK's death
  Bökman, Karin: as IK's personal secretary; witnesses Polish deal; IK keeps secrets from; in Match Palace; in Paris with IK; notices changes in IK's personality; and IK's negotiations in Italy; and IK's not seeing Berning; IK sends money gift to; opens IK's safe; and IK's thoughts of suicide; and IK's death; retires
  Continental Investment Corporation: formed; IK transfers money to from International Match; inactive role; Durant ignorant of; IK claims French deposit in; fails to record dividends; Berning requests accounts from Wendler; size; IK transfers French money to; International Match receives income from; assets
  France: seeks post-war loans; match monopoly; deals with Morgan; IK offers loan for match deal; repays loan to IK
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conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: France: seeks post-war loans; match monopoly; deals with Morgan; IK offers loan for match deal; repays loan to IK
  Germany: IK negotiates loan; and fiscal monopolies; deals with Morgan; defaults on war reparations; and Young plan; trade relations with Russia; bonds exchanged against Italian securities
  Hoover, Herbert: IK advises; as Secretary of Commerce; on US economy; IK's relations with; and IK's German loan
  Jordahl, Anders: business in New York with IK; relations with IK; works for Kreuger & Toll; and US auditing of IK's companies; and International Match's financial statements; in Stockholm for opening of Match Palace; influence on IK; and IK's trading through Aminoff; IK transfers debentures to; final letters to IK; later lawsuits; and IK's supposed escape
  Kreuger & Toll (company): as IK's public holding company; capital; financial statements; pays dividends; formed; businesses; Durant favours; fixed-date completion agreements; Toll's role reduced; profits and obligations; International Match funds transferred to; construction work; and convertible debenture derivatives; as source of money; share values; Durant approves new share issues; Durant questions auditing; issues American Certificates; IK's debt to; and Italian contract; Hennig suspects fraud; IK issues report on 1931 profits; securities traded at IK's death; balance sheet declared misrepresentative; condition after IK's death; American Certificates burned
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conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Poland: IK seeks government loan and monopoly in; match manufacture and export; International Match loan to; IK makes second agreement wih; IK makes further deal with (1930)
  Stockholm: IK's property in; City Hall; IK's home in Villagatan; Match Palace; Berning stays in Grand Hotel; Olympic Games (1912)
  Sweden: develops safety match; regulators investigate IK and Swedish Match; banks invest in IK's companies; IK's factories and operations inspected by US businessman
  Swedish Match (corporation): output; investors; IK forms; Durant favors; Diamond Match seeks merger; holdings in International Match; Littorin appointed president; subsidiaries; profits and obligations; covert loans; and separate syndicate; investigated by Swedish regulators; International Match funds transferred to; investment in International Match; dividends; and European fiscal monopolies; common shares; and Polish agreement; payments to Garanta; US imports; sells to France; and IK's loan to France; growth; deals in foreign countries; in Brazil; Berning requests accounts from Wendler; profits transferred with International Match; and German loan; financial statements; IK unable to pay shareholders; condition at IK's death; recovers
  United States of America: IK travels to (1922); prosperity; investments and investors; lack of financial regulations; IK's earlier financial ventures in; monopolies illegal in; Federal Reserve; literature and arts; property and land prices increase; smoking; business companies' inadequate reports; lowers interest rates (1927); financial boom (1928/29); great crash (1929); investigates IK's affairs after deaty; securities legislation