Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles. Edward F. Sands, 34, 5 ft 5 in., for the murder of William Desmond Taylor, cinema director, whose butler he was. Questioned in this case were Cinemactresses Mabel Normand, last to see Taylor alive, and Mary Miles Minter whose lingerie and love letters were found in the Taylor apartment...
...Case (Paramount). Since in writing murder stories an author's development, if it takes place at all, must be along the line of murders, S. S. Van Dine, who made his first reputation out of stories with one murder, went on brilliantly to four in the Greene family. Director Frank Tuttle, who photographed The Canary Murder Case, used District Attorney Markham, Detective Sergeant Heath and Super-Detective Philo Vance (William Powell) again to find out who was killing all the Greenes. Perhaps because of the great number of Greenes who must die before the murderer is tracked down...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
...William E. Rappard, onetime Director of the Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations, protested against the Kellogg Pact, objecting to "uncertainty as to what it prohibits and what it permits, the absence of any indication as to the nature of the 'pacific means' which are to be substituted for War, lack of any provision for violation...
Company. Twenty-two passengers were aboard. Most active were Karl H. Von Wiegand. European director of William Randolph Hearst's Universal News service: Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst-backed polar explorer; Lady Grace Drummond Hay, fastidious Hearst voyageuse; Robert Hartman, Hearst photographer; the U. S. Navy's Lieut.-Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, Hearst guest. Their duties were to report the popular and scientific details exclusively for Hearst and associated newspapers. Other passengers and the crew were forbidden to say a word or sell a picture until the Hearst group permitted them to do so. For exclusive news rights, Publisher Hearst...