Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elusive Promotion. Not many men get into politics as Edouard Daladier did, not many stay in by such shifts as he has made. He got in via the schoolroom door. His father was a baker in the town of Carpentras and he went to public schools. At the Lycée Duparc in Lyon one of his teachers was Edouard Herriot. By winning first in a history competition at the University of Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils...
...Company, which owns the English rights. Instead, he went abroad to collaborate with Producer Toye, who got the D'Oyly Carte's wholehearted cooperation. The Mikado cost about $1,000,000. Newcomers to Gilbert & Sullivan in its cast are pretty little Jean Colin (Yum-Yum) and Kenny Baker (Nanki-Poo), U. S. radio singer imported for the part. Of Baker the unmollified London Times remarked: "He seems to have learnt English in some place nearer to Japan than London...
...Business School: George E. Bates, Professor of Finance; Edmund P. Learned, Professor of Marketing; Robert L. Masson, professor of Finance; George P. Baker, Associate Professor of Transportation; Thomas H. Carroll, Assistant Professor of Accounting; Harry L. Hansen, Assistant Professor of Marketing; and Henrietta M. Larson, Assistant Professor of Business History...
...years in Hollywood, where he got his start thinking up wisecracks for titles in silent pictures. Since he shifted to writing original screenplays, which his friends told him was a "starvation business," he has starved less than any writer in Hollywood. Seven years ago he teamed up with Graham Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist...
...Towne & Baker need no longer worry about screen credit or having their stories mussed up by somebody else. They are now bosses of their own producing company, The Play's The Thing Productions. Unlike a similar producing venture attempted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur five years ago, T. P. T. P. will release four pictures through RKO* next year. The four, picked by Towne for their story value: The Swiss Family Robinson (published in 1813), James Fenimore Cooper's The Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African...