Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Film. In Manhattan, Hooverizers viewed a first showing of The Master of Emergencies, pieced together by the Nominee's friend, Author Will Irwin, from some ten miles of miscellaneous cinema films showing Hoover activities since...
Andre Maurois, able French author (Ariel, Disraeli), is adept at picking representative material-albeit trite-in order to write a book, to father an essay. Deftly, for the New York Times, he took the main points for and against Prohibition, dangled them before the reader's eye, then put them away, told what dangling Prohibition arguments have taught him. Says M. Maurois...
...November 12, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York, will become Archbishop of Canterbury. Like the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, whom he succeeds, Dr. Lang is a Scotchman; also he is 64, the author of a novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh son, a brilliant though sometimes over-impassioned orator, and suspected of being the leader of that portion of the Church of England which most nearly approaches the Church of Rome. It was this last qualification in the present Archbishop of York which caused members of the League of Loyal Churchmen...
...Manhattan, a place where trains load and boats dock, where beery workmen lurch home along cobbled streets and where the world of art is chiefly represented by ancient and execrable examples of the cinema. Why then should anyone want to own a theatre in Hoboken, N. J.? Famed Author Christopher Darlington Morley (Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left) knows, for last week he bought one, the Rialto, of which he said...
...federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Earl Carroll last October said good-bye to Warden John Wilson Snook.†returned to Manhattan, with nimble fingers went about the work of crocheting the seventh edition of his Vanities, lewd, nude, lusty revue. Last week it had its premiere; inaccurate cries of "Author!" brought Perjurer-Producer Carroll to the stage. Broadwayfarers howled obsequious approval, others beat their hands, a few figuratively beat their breasts. Carroll, producer, had produced; his show was a success...