Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Clifton H. Dwinnell, 55, financier, director of the Hood Rubber Co., president since 1926 of the First National Bank of Boston; in Boston...
Divorced. Mrs. Margaret Gibbs Miller Guggenheim; from Robert Guggenheim, son of Capitalist Daniel Guggenheim, managing director of the Guggenheim Exploration Zinc Co., director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelting Securities Co. and other copper companies; in Paris...
...orchestra was Enrique Fernandez Arbos from Spain, who followed Oskar Fried in leading the orchestra. His also was his first visit as a conductor, although 25 years ago he had been concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. From Boston he had been called to become permanent director of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, then a ragged organization of men who played, well and seldom, music of all nations but Spain. That was because for 12 years foreign guest conductors had been hired, who had no interest, no experience with indigenous music...
...Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
...Night Flyer. Speedy, thrilling is this picture of how the mail train raced to Medicine Bend. Director James Cruze routed from the round house the engines of pioneer railroad days as a setting for a story as primitive as that of Casey Jones...