Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...
...Sihier** of New York University; the first man to receive a Johns Hopkins M. D., Dr. Charles R. Bardeen of the University of Wisconsin; the first woman to receive a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Florence Bascom, head of the geology department of Bryn Mawr College. Other alumni: Director George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey; President Cyrus Adler of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Manhattan) ; U. S. Minister to Denmark J. Dyneley Prince; Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin of Princeton University; Dean Gordon J. Laing of the graduate school of arts and literature of the University of Chicago...
...members of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia took their seats for their annual meeting last week in an atmosphere of ill-concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had notified Dr. William David Coolidge, assistant research director of the General Electric Co., that he was this year's recipient of the Howard N. Potts gold medal, in recognition of his now universally used invention, the Coolidge X-ray tube. And Dr. Coolidge had replied, saying that he would present himself for the reward, and at the same time submit a demonstration called: "A Method of Producing High Voltage...
...Straw Hat. In the American Laboratory Theatre, one of New York's repertory houses, Richard Boleslavsky, formerly director of the First Moscow Art Theatre Studio, stages a delightful, farcical frivolity that skips over the stage and down the aisles on pleasantly intimate terms with its audience. A French bridegroom must match a rare straw hat on his wedding day. Encumbered by a rural wedding party, driven by a fierce Lieutenant, he squirms from one ticklish situation to another, while the audience's amusement is heightened by music with strong rhythm, a buoyant chorus of youthful actors, ingenious flipping...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...