Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the paper's staff bought in desks, typewriters and office equipment of the Transcript for $15.84. Another bought in the Transcript's $18,500 press for $41.93, deeded it right back to Editor Baker. In zero weather, Sheriff F. H. Brandt went about the town selling out other Susquehanna concerns. A house fetched 81? a lumber yard, $7.98, automobiles, 25?. Because Susquehanna townsfolk were united allies of Editor Baker, all the properties went back to their original owners. The Canawacta Water Company lost $800 by the sales...
...prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach, ''even if they don't learn a damned thing." Still another, Elsa Brandt (Katharine Cornell), spiritually writhes in agony in the bondage of the music department. She would give her soul to be a concert pianist...
...Ottokar Brandt (Siegfried Rumann of Grand Hotel), a great bear of a man whose crippled left arm once played a gifted violin, has taught his daughter all he knows of music. Now she must go to Vienna. During the midyear vacation a scholarship is vacated. It may be Elsa's chance. When she fails to get it she enlists the sympathy and warm admiration of Harry Conway. They fall in love, although they try to control it. "It's surprising," says Elsa, with a wry twist of the mouth, "the things we can control...
...Manhattan, Magistrate Brandt in Tombs Court suspended sentence on 13 intoxicated men. Said he: "Why don't you wait, like I am waiting, until we get the good beer back...
...week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became president of Columbia in place of Joseph Brandt, planned to pay some of his scenarists and actors picture royalties. A new cooperative producing organization, the Screen Guild, headed by President Michael Charles Levee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, last week prepared to start its first production, Chocolate, which Cecil Blount DeMille will direct...