Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: All my life I have heard of only one man to whom the expression "a fiend in human form" seemed justly applicable and not melodramatic. That man is the German motion picture director. Schultz** whom you describe in TIME, May 31, p. 14. The man who would spring a trap under two horses, send them crunching off a cliff to their death, and finally have motion pictures taken of their agony, is not a man?he is in truth a fiend. I have never written a letter to a magazine before, but I could not sleep last night, thinking...
...With the puerile squeamishness of most Americans you seem unable to appreciate that when director Schwarz of the German U.F.A. picture company, was presented with a script in which two horses were supposed to fall off a cliff and be killed, his artistic honesty allowed him no other course than to follow the script. Some of your readers sneered at me when I wrote you about von Richthofen?and you, of course, printed their sneers [TIME, Dec. 14, 28]. No German would have done that! We Germans?many of us at least?are strong enough to see the world...
...Vassar Alumnae Association has made its chief executive of its Associate an educational director, whose section is primarily adult education, and not the raising of funds. Princeton and Amherst and other colleges have developed various intellectual channels for teaching their alumni, and the results have been most promising...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics accepted Mr. Stevens' resignation, and announced the appointment of H. H. Haines, at present coach of the Freshman Crew, as Head Coach for the balance of the season...
Professor Alfred Zimmern, noted writer and educator, who has lectured a number of times in this country and spent the year 1922-23 as exchange professor at Cornell University, is Director of the school and responsible for its success. The work is sponsored by an American Executive Committee of which Mr. Owen D. Young is Chairman...