Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first: Four Saints in Three Acts. For her Faust, British Composer Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners, is writing the music...
...Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair little man whose possessions include the smile and manners of a spoiled bad boy, two other newspapers besides the Express, two sons, a daughter, two houses, a personal fortune of some $40,000,000. He has a reputation for extravagance and big-time caprice which...
...Replaced as production head of Paramount's Hollywood studio by his onetime subordinate, William Le Baron, 65-year-old Adolph Zukor, kingpin of the cinema industry from 1920 to 1930, this week left Hollywood for London, assigned to "coordinate" the company's European activities...
Although the Harvard agent denied that Boston's most powerful lottery baron had anything to do with the pool, it was learned conclusively that the gambler, a witness in the "Beauo" Breen murder case, had agreed to back the enterprise...
Died. Martin Bladen, Baron Hawke, 78, famed English cricketer, often captain of England's cricket team, longtime (1883-1910) captain-of Yorkshire; in Edinburgh. His heartfelt prayer ("I pray God no professional may ever captain England") has not yet been denied...