Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays regularly at the Fo'cas'le at the Hotel Rockmere in Marblehead. The first boatload for which the Harvardians will furnish music and entertainment sails from New York on Wednesday. When the ship reaches England, the orchestra will scout-around and see if they can pick up a contract for later on in the summer. There is also the chance that they may find a position in France for the end of the season...
...State's Attorney's office contractors told their stories of jobs they never got. The standard "fee" was $500 for a contract in 30 days. One man had been promised good jobs in Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana. When he failed to get them, he said he stormed into the Curtis office, received back $400 of his "fee." Another builder paid in his $500, he said, and later invested $15 in a set of Federal statutes from which he learned that only by the strictest competitive bidding could he hope to get a U. S. contract legally. Other...
...Business School a lecture entitled "The Cinema as Art", which he has previously delivered before student audiences at the University of Berlin, the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. He is on his way to the west coast to direct a moving picture under a Paramount contract, which will probably deal with some feature of modern American life. Tickets for tonight's lecture have been distributed, but the doors will be thrown open at 7.45 o'clock...
...commemorated the successful revolt of 1917. His latest picture is "Old and New," a production dealing with the agricultural problems of Russia, and contrasting the new and the outworn methods of agriculture of his country. At present he is en route to Hollywood, where he is under contract to Paramount...
...Amkino). To Manhattan last week came Producer Jesse L. Lasky and Director Sergie Michailovitch Eisenstein aboard the Enropa. In Director Eisenstein's pocket was a contract with Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. to direct their pictures, use his original art?an art of faces. Instead of finding an actor whose physical equipment, intelligence and training fit him to play a given part, Eisenstein looks for a human being who will be the part, whose performance in front of the camera will not be acting but a continuation of the life which that person lives daily. It is a method which...