Word: aldrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Leave (by Gladys Hurlbut and Emma Wells-Richard Aldrich and Alfred de Liagre Jr., producers) is considerably more entertaining than most of the little comedies about a suburban husband and wife who have grown bored with each other. When shy little Henry Smith (Howard Lindsay) suggests to Ellen Smith (Dorothy Gish) that they separate for a week, he hopes to encounter adventure. Instead he encounters a wench whose Junior League manners lead him to believe that, like the Smiths' governess and cook, she is a depression product, too good for her position. Ellen Smith encounters a pleasant Scotch...
...Richard Aldrich (Harvard '25) and Alfred de Liagre Jr. (Yale '26) are two of Broadway's least experienced managers but in By Your Leave, as in Three Cornered Moon which they produced last year, they showed good casting sense. Dorothy Gish looks younger than she is (36). Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner...
...order changes but slowly in many parts of Harvard University. The Visiting Committee appointed this year by the Board of Overseers for the Department of Economics is a case in point. Glancing down the roster of the committee, one finds the names of Wintrhop W. Aldrich, George F. Baker, Richard Whitney, and two lease moguls of the banking fraternity, together with Walter Lippmann and Walter S. Gifford. For a committee of seven members, the Overseers managed to pick one liberal columnist, one president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and five bankers...
Facing his stockholders and reading his annual report. Banker Aldrich came to what was probably the longest and most uninspired sentence of all the long and uninspired sentences read by bank officers to their stockholders last week: "The board of directors has appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these...
...Said Mr. Aldrich: "I should say that every conceivable allegation as to negligence or misfeasance that any lawyer could think of had already been made in the suits that have been commenced...