Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informal boxing tournament during the spring against some suitable opponent, to be selected by the Athletic Director, was authorized...
Foreign Minister Stresemann, and Dr. Luther in his long terms as Finance Minister and sometimes Chancellor, have built up the political and financial base upon which the new Republic squarely rests. Dr. Luther is out of politics at present, was elected a Krupp director last week. But Dr. Stresemann continues at the Foreign Office. So does Dr. Gessler, Minister of Defense since 1920, a prodigious record. It is these statesmen of the middle parties, the "Little Coalition" men, who have wrought the ship of the Republic so strong that last week the Nationalists saw no option but to climb aboard...
...Four thousand people applauded. Between the acts they gossiped. Only a few years ago these girls were unknown . . . common school education . . . vaudeville songsters. But Rosa came to Manhattan, took singing lessons from William Thorner. He, recognizing talent, visited Gatti-Casazza, announced a "find." "Let me hear her," answered the Director. He did, was impressed, advised her to work up one or two roles. She made her debut with Caruso, after six months of vocal instruction. Carmela is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Hartford concert was the first appearance of the two sisters together in public since...
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...
...combination will make the Beery-Hatton one look to its laurels. Charmaine of France, Shanghai Mabel, and Carmen of the Philippines are amusingly sensuous. . . . . and the picture makes no bones about it either. The real credit for the excellent work in the picture should go to Raoul Walsh, the director. He has caught the idea of Stallings and Anderson to teach pacifism by examples from the horrible side of war. With this in mind his scenes centering around the "Mother's Boy" are gripping and moving. The underground dugout scene, so powerful on the stage, has increased power...