Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wisdom Producer Winthrop Ames picked Frieda Inescort. a young lady who, though she began her career in The Truth About Blayds (1922), is still well and honestly within her 20's. Discerning spectators along the "road" soon realized how lucky they were to see a Portia who was neither an old stager nor an eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago...
...unprecedented for a cinemactor to aspire to opera. Hope Hampton with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (TIME, Dec. 31). Richard Dix also takes his singing seriously. And last week it was pressagented that Charles Ray, 38, is cultivating his high tenor voice for a career. According to one Alfredo Martino, a Manhattan teacher. Cinemactor Ray takes two lessons a day when in town. At present he is touring with a vaudeville act in which he sings and plays the piano. It is a comedy act but now the famed Ray grin is just a mask for a great and earnest...
Upon graduation, he refused many an important position in order to continue his career as a journalist which he did by becoming a reporter on the New York World under famed, dynamic Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. After a year, he went with his school and college classmate, Henry Robinson Luce, to be a reporter for the late Publisher Munsey's Baltimore News. Thence, having got as far as they could in spare hours with the Newsmagazine Idea, they returned, jobless and with a few hundred dollars, to New York...
...HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature: "Briton Hadden was one of the most resourceful, energetic and original editors of the younger generation. He had a great career ahead of him and a great achievement behind in his share in the establishing of TIME. He was one of those men who shows their powers early and realize all expectations. I knew him as an undergraduate editor of a college daily-afterwards as the pioneer of a new kind of magazine and as a prophet of an accomplished success in the magazine world, just as energetic...
KARL A. BICKEL, President of the United Press: "Journalism has lost more than it will ever know for he had just fairly started on a most brilliant career with all the rough spots behind...