Word: albright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side stood Philip Albright Small Franklin and his International Mercantile Marine combination. On the other side stood Paul Wadsworth Chapman, present head of U. S. Lines, now evidently aided by Pacific coast shippers headed by Robert Stanley Dollar. Optimistic Philip Franklin offered $3,000,000 in liquidation of existing indebtedness and otherwise complied with all the conditions laid down by the Board. Tenacious Mr. Chapman offered $3,170,900 but dodged the problem of operating the Leviathan, heaviest money-loser of the fleet. Let the Shipping Board take title to the Leviathan, suggested Mr. Chapman, and he would operate...
Meanwhile International Mercantile Marine, rejuvenated, Morgan-sponsored, and strengthened by the alliance with Roosevelt Steamship Co. was reported to have made an unsatisfactory bid last week. This did not mean that Philip Albright Small Franklin's company was out of the running, for the Shipping Board was reconsidering other initial bids at first rejected...
Whatever may be the state of graces of the hero and the heroine, there can be no doubt of their acting ability. Hardie Albright and Dorothy Jordan convince one of their worthiness from the start. The former was particularly as home in his role of the young wastrel, having appeared before Boston audiences in the stage version of the story last winter. The picture also marks the return of Thomas Meighan, long absent, to the screen. The comeback of a one-time favorite is always a precarious matter, but it looks as though Meighan might make the grade...
...movie than it was a play, for the sequences showing the dissipations of very young and very rich characters do not suffer the stage's three-walled circumscription. Meighan does no sinning. He is an Adirondack guide entrusted with the job of making a man out of Hardie Albright and keeping him off liquor long enough to be a respectable groom for Dorothy Jordan. She is the poetic, crinoline type of heroine whom no one can associate with sinful doings. Meighan is all right in his role, though too often his lines are sappy. Most tiresome shot: Albright registering...
...deal receive its official confirmation. Kermit Roosevelt, John M. Franklin and Basil Harris became vice presidents of I. M. M., while all three and lanky, yacht-fond Vincent Astor were made directors, marking the passing of control to the Roosevelt interests. Still president of I. M. M. is Philip Albright Small Franklin, probably pleased to have his company controlled by his son and friends...