Word: bert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tire Fabrics. In Akron, Ohio, President Bertram G. Work of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., the greatest single producer of rubber products in the world, has become almost a tradition, although years ago he was familiarly called "Bert." He is rarely seen in public, almost never in the company of such famed rubber men as Harvey S. Firestone and Frank A. Seiberling (president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 1898-1920, of Seiberling Rubber Co. since 1920). Even his comings and goings pass unchronicled in the local press...
...annual dance of the Circolo Italiano will be held tonight at the Copley Plaza Hotel at 9.30 o'clock. At this dance at which attendance will be by invitation from the Circolo Italiano only, the music will be supplied by Bert Lowe's Orchestra...
...Bert Lowe's 25-piece orchestra, captained by Mr. Lowe himself will provide music for the evening...
...than 120,000 persons" passed her bier as she lay in state at Los Angeles. A crowd of 10,000 broke up the funeral when it was finally held, milled about furiously while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into...
Lady Windermere's Fan. The difficult business of filming Oscar Wilde has been entrusted to Ernest Lubitsch with the assistance of Irene Rich, Ronald Coleman, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy. Perhaps the most exceptionally difficult task of the cinema is the transference to the screen of drawing-room comedy. Mr. Lubitsch has done it about as well as one could wish...