Word: directing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face, I took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made,--one by the pencil of a student in his class, another in oils by a lady who had followed him on the street...
...have this on the basis of direct advices from Professor Einstein himself. His correspondence bears the tone of scholarly dignity and magnanimity...
British G.E.-U.S.G.E. No direct connection has existed between Gerard Swope's U. S. General Electric Co. and Sir Hugo Hirst's British General Electric Co.. Ltd., onetime (TIME, April 1, et seq.) prominent exponent of the Britain-for-the-British financial theory. Last week, however, such a connection was rumored in the report that British G. E. contemplated merging with Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., largest British makers of electrical equipment. Inasmuch as Associated Electrical Industries is about one-third owned by International Electric Co., and as this latter corporation is a subsidiary of U. S. General Electric...
...troubles are not entirely over. Most disconcerting was the attitude of the B. & O. Said its President Daniel Willard: "Inasmuch as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad does not with its own rails extend north of Philadelphia at this time, that company is naturally not in a position to give its direct support to the project...
...have been considered for presentation in a renovated downtown theatre. A $1,000 prize awaits the first St. Louisan who writes a producible play. The Theatre Society was conceived by an Englishman named Peter Greig, Cambridge graduate, onetime actor with Sir Herbert Tree, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Marie Tempest. To direct the project, he resigned lately as assistant to Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the Society's chief backers...