Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major U.S. Grant, grandson of the General of the same name, son of Major General Frederick Dent Grant and son-in-law of Elihu Root, is to come into the foreground shortly. On Dec. 31 he succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, who is resigning from his post as Director of Public Buildings and Parks of the District of Columbia to become City Manager of Cincinnati. Major Grant, formerly Colonel Sherrill's assistant, becomes his successor...
Another business man goeth into politics-Evans Woollen, Indianapolis Bank President-a man to whom President Wilson offered a place on the Federal Reserve Board; who is Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the American Bankers' Association; who is or has been chairman, president or director of a railway, a life insurance company, any number of charitable and welfare associations, a college, an historical society, an art association, a fuel administration and memorials ranging from Benjamin Harrison to James Whitcomb Riley. He is besides a Democrat, and once ran for Congress-in 1896 on the Gold Democratic ticket...
This particular School for Scandal was directed by Basil Dean, an Englishman of considerable standing in his own community. On this side his reputation as director is rather ragged. In fact many of the critics consider his work inferior. He seems to put a pompous and theatrical feeling into the proceedings; at any rate, he did in this production. The wit of the infallible comedy shone through but dimly...
...Chicago Opera Association will probably set the evening of January 26 for the event. The opera then to be given is Wagner's Walkuere. Cyrena Van Gordon, Olga Forrai, Alexander Kipnis, Augusta Lenska, Forrest Lamont and Edouard Cotreuil will be the vocal artists of the evening. Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the organization, will conduct the orchestra...
...originally dashed off in all seriousness by Harold MacGrath, who never wrote a funny thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...