Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (86-to-18) a bill by New York's Dickstein excluding mediocre alien actors under the contract labor clause of the immigration...
...Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian cinema director, signed a contract with Paramount for $3,000 a week. Last week, from Manhattan, famed Sergei Eisenstein sailed back to Russia. It is customary for alien cinema artisans who have failed in Hollywood to speak bitterly of their sojourn there. Sergei Eisenstein...
...Victoria Forde Mix, who charged mental cruelty, "loudness in public," pistol twirling; getting sued for $13,000 by one John Berress of Minneapolis, who charged that while drunk Mix grappled with him, shook a large fist; getting sued by Col. Zack T. Miller for alleged jumping of a contract with Miller's now defunct 101 Ranch Circus; nearly dying from peritonitis following an appendectomy; marrying one Mabel Hubbell Ward...
This is the Night (Paramount). It is possible that when Director Ernst Lubitsch was hesitating to sign his new contract, Paramount's production chiefs thought it might be expedient to have a second-string Lubitsch ready. Frank Tuttle certainly directed this one in the Lubitsch manner. He even uses a Lubitsch touch at the very beginning when a lady (Thelma Todd) gets her evening gown caught in the door of a limousine and the crowd on the sidewalk turns the incident into a song-"Madame Has Lost Her Dress." The song runs through the rest of the picture...
Labor's plea, eloquently voiced for the 21 rail unions and the A. F. of L., came to Senator Borah's committee from Donald Randall Richberg, Chicago attorney. With Judge Wilkerson's 1922 injunction in mind, said he: "He set aside the constitutional guarantees of liberty of contract and free speech. He permitted his court to be used as a strikebreaking agency in behalf of the railway managements. ... In his blind partisanship and antagonism to labor unions. Judge Wilkerson has not followed the law as laid clown by the Supreme Court, but has attempted to write...