Word: director
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these regulations have been lightly administered by genial, mountainous Director of Censorship Walter Scott Thompson. Born in England, Director Thompson was a newspaperman himself (as a correspondent for various London journals he covered assignments in South Africa, Australia, the South Sea Islands) before he went to Canada in 1911, became an official pressagent for the Dominion's railways, steamships, hotels. It was Walter Thompson who took charge of publicity for the Royal Visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth last spring...
...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...
...perfectionism which also turned Kaufman into a director. He used to be driven half-crazy seeing other directors maul his lines, twist their meanings, spot a laugh where there was none. He first took over direction in 1925, on the only play he has written by himself, The Butter and Egg Man. He lacked confidence to finish the job, or even his next two or three, but since then he has directed almost all his own shows...
Died. George Denver Guggenheim, 32, millionaire bachelor son and only remaining child of Philanthropist Simon Guggenheim; by his own hand (rifle) in a Manhattan hotel. Member of the executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable Corp., trustee of a $1,000,000 trust fund, George Guggenheim suffered from a nervous disorder, had recently tried to slash his wrists. When his brother, John Simon, died in 1922 of mastoiditis, his parents established in his memory the famed Guggenheim Foundation (for international study), now capitalized...
Speakers will include Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the University Observatory, and Kenneth V. Thimann, assistant professor of Plant Physiology, and chairman of the local branch of the Association...