Word: ap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Emil Jannings was to the German, what Charles Laughton is to the English, Harry Baur has long been to the French cinema. As France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This...
Last week's decision of a Circuit Court in New Orleans that the National Labor Relations Act did not apply to manufacturers gave an idea to the AP's counsel, white-crowned John William Davis. First he pointed out that the AP is not run for profit, can declare no dividends, then ingeniously argued: "This case falls in the classification of manufacture and not in interstate commerce. News is manufactured over editorial cables, while Bessemer Steel may be manufactured by the open-hearth process. News comes in as raw material and is put in final shape by editorial...
...regard to the AP's non-profit status, the Guild's smart Attorney Morris Ernst was equally resourceful. Appearing as a "friend of the court," Attorney Ernst declared: "It is quite clear that respondent [the AP] is not an eleemosynary institution, but is a business association through which member newspapers make greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over...
...Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper. He was a 6-ton, 9-ft. high, 25-year-old beast called "Charley Ed," valued at $5,000 minus a tusk which he had lost in a fall from a baggage car. After he ap peared with Wallace Beery in the cinema O'Shaughnessy's Boy he was re-named "Wally." Well-behaved. Wally proved a star attraction at Fleishhacker...
...more than six years. Mr. Young's return to Reserve service not only marked a reversal of a much-criticized policy: it also provided the Board with a suitable figure to act as chairman of the New York Reserve Bank. Last winter Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles ap-Brothers and Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. in the Paramount reorganization. Mr. Fortington quit after a split on an involved question of profit-sharing arrangements with theatre operators, departed for Labrador, where he owns a salmon river. Whether Joe Kennedy has any suggestions for resignations will not be known...