Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cartridge fire; bathing girls put on a "battle"; the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps played "music"; hired Indians played as natives; a hotel thief took $400 from Tom Nokis, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, while he slept; a pickpocket took $210 from D. Edward Gibbs, program director of the International Advertising Association, while he was awake. "Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week...
Their plan was simple, shrewd. At noontime, while Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was lunching, a young Royalist entered a telephone booth in the Ministry of Interior. He called the Prison Santé, asked for its Director, M. Catry, and mimicking the voice of an assistant of Minister Sarraut, ordered that M. Léon Daudet and two other prisoners should be instantly released from jail...
...Director Catry, no fool, suspected trickery. After hanging up he waited a few moments, then called the Ministry of Interior. Meanwhile several dozen other Royalists had called all the Ministry's telephones except that in the booth. Therefore the call of Director Catry was switched to the only available phone, that at which stood the mimicker, who, for a second time, ordered M. Daudet's release, rebuked M. Catry...
Premier Raymond Poincaré hastily convened the Cabinet which promptly suspended Director Catry of the Prison Sant...
Madame Wants No Children is a German treatment of a French foible. That it bubbles without fuming is gratifying to audiences who are waiting to see Herr Alexander Korda (director) and Frau Marie Corda (actress)* in a forthcoming screen version of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. The heroine of Madame Wants No Children is a newlywed French wife whom the bleak sphinx, Venetian gondolas and an uxorious spouse cannot dislodge from night clubs. Even at home in Paris her life is a succession of jazz blares, pale lights and glittering stuffed shirts. Eventually, however, she joggles down...