Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Towners. George M. Cohan believes himself to be the author of this story about a suspicious old man who comes to New York from South Bend, Ind., to be best man for a friend who is marrying a woman they wouldn't like in South Bend. While the camera turns its solemn eye and ear on the declamations and gestures of Richard Bennett and Doris Kenyon, the spectators, distracted by the jerky sequences, annoyed by the enormous metallic voices issuing from the vitaphone, are left to wonder what sounds even a perfected mechanism could produce which would equal...
Wells Root (Yale 1922), onetime theatre critic for TIME, wrote this cinema of the adventure of the son of a janitor and a girl from a Wild West show in the shadow of Holder Tower. Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) directed it. Like loyal sons of Eli, the author and director asked permission to shoot the college scenes on their own campus but were turned down by New Haven authorities, annoyed by the many unauthorized pictures which have shown Yale men as debauchees...
Died. George Barr McCutcheon, 62, famed romancer, author of the Graustark saga; of heart disease; at luncheon with his friends in Manhattan...
...Author. Born in Boston some 40 years ago, educated conventionally at Harvard, Isaac Goldberg nevertheless displays the versatility characteristic of bright Jews, interested as much in music as in romance? languages he is author of numerous Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" on music and musicians; translator from the Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish; authority on Spanish-American literature; biographer of such heterogeneous characters as Havelock Ellis, Mencken, Nathan, and now the Topsy-Turvy Twins...
Pay?to William J. Locke, author, $50,000 from Joseph M. Schenck for one story lor Norma Talmadge, Schenck's wife. To Erich Von Stroheim?$285,000 and 10 weeks' time allowance to make Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson...