Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis in 1924, appeared last week unobtrusively in Washington. He was preparing the party organization for the Congressional campaign next fall. The National Democratic Headquarters, which he stripped of almost all its employes after Mr. Davis' defeat, is being enlarged. Richard T. Buchanan of Indiana was appointed publicity director. Mr. Shaver is expected shortly to announce that the Democratic debt of $200,000 left over from the last campaign has been wiped...
...Boheme. In a perfect spasm of Art and classic reverence, Metro-Goldwyn has taken the fiction of Henry Murger, chiefly famous for Puccini's opera written around it, and produced a "super-picture." Lillian Gish and John Gilbert are the players and the director is King Vidor. After failing in an attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story...
...Malvern, has perhaps surpassed it in favor. The Philadelphians have consecrated to spiritual re-creation 100 acres just outside the city. They have improved a choice suburban landscape with a magnificent chapel, a large comfortable retreat house. The genius of inauguration was supplied by Father Terence Shealy, first director of retreats...
...Committee can only be applauded for its appreciation of the University's needs and its choice of means to meet them. This step may be a force in influencing the University administration to adopt an equally sane attitude toward athletics for all. The recent appointment of Mr. Bingham as Director of Athletics with a seat on the Faculty has given grounds for the hope that this attitude is already taking shape, that the day will come when athletics will be regarded as a department of the University on the same footing as the departments of History, Philosophy, and Fine Arts...
Health and recreation are provided for by a medical staff, an athletic director and the usual extra-curriculum activities, in order to relieve the monotony a long sea voyage. The entire expense of the eight months trip is $2500 per student. A limited number of preparatory school boys will be included in the roster, and the boat will dock at New York in June, 1927, in ample time for them to take college entrance examinations prepared for on the trip...