Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy Awards are gold-plated statuets nicknamed Oscars. Oscar for the 1936 best performance by an actor went last week to Paul Muni, who attended the banquet wearing the beard he used in his forthcoming The Woman I Love. The award was for his work in the title role of The Story of Louis Pasteur. Screenwriters Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings, who wrote and adapted The Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra...
Rarest prize awarded by the Cinema Academy is its special award for an "outstanding contribution to the industry." Awarded only when the Special Award Committee feels that there has been a contribution outstanding enough to deserve it, the prize has been presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark...
...Ezekiel, who won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Economic Study in 1930, has been connected with the Agricultural Department since 1922. Following the award of the Fellowship, he served three years as assistant chief economist to the Federal Farm Board, being appointed to his present position...
...education in the past decade." Superintendent Sutton had to mention no names, for fox-bearded William Andrew McAndrew, who was ridden out of his Chicago superintendency on farcical charges by Mayor William Hale ("America First") Thompson (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), was much in evidence. Twinkling at the Outstanding Service Award he received from the Exhibitors Association, Mr. McAndrew repulsed photographers by crying: "I belong to the loyal order of Little Blades of Grass who never have their pictures taken!" Onetime Superintendent McAndrew is now on the editorial board of School & Society...
...appeal was taken, and last week Tabor v. Hood reached the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Disallowing the jury's award, the court ruled that Tabor Academy's action "cannot be found unreasonable...