Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers are: James W. Altheimer '39, Douglas MacD. Anderson '41, Bernard J. McMahon '41, Craig Moore '41, Joseph H. Perry '40, Philip deN. Ruprecht '40, Robert H. Ryan '41, Robert B. Stokley '41, Quimby Taylor '41, Howard Hagaman '41, John F. Seiberling '40 and John M. Hall...
Informed of the death on Christmas Day of 48-year-old CzechoSlovakian Dramatist Karel Capek (TIME, Jan. 2), 82-year-old Dramatist George Bernard Shaw exclaimed: "Why did he die? Why not me? ... It seems almost absurd that an old man like me should continue living while youngsters like Karel have to pass...
...Paris, police arrested Bernard Tanenzapf, former president of Pathe Cinema,-on charges of embezzling at least $3,660,000. Lean, black-mustached, fiftyish, Bernard Tanenzapf, who also called himself Bernard Natan, started his career somewhere in Central Europe. He arrived in Paris about 1920, organized several small but profitable cinema producing companies, bought out Pathe's founder, Charles Pathe...
...whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine of dramatic material when other famed producers had given up all hope of ever tapping it. Men of the Year, outstanding in comprehensive science, were three medical researchers who discovered that nicotinic acid...
...Unpredictable, inexhaustible, octogenarian George Bernard Shaw last week disclosed that he is at work on a historical play laid in the reign of Charles II. Said Shaw to sex-sniffing reporters: "Oh, forget about Nell Gwyn; this is going to be about really interesting people . . . Sir Isaac Newton, for instance...