Word: director
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the Exposition was already playing to small audiences before the Fair opened, it is doubtful that transcontinental competition has hurt San Francisco's show so much as lack of showmanship. To cure that defect the Exposition last week took a promising new managing director to succeed the dethroned Harris Connick (TIME, May 15). Smart, baldish New Director Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator, is all for brisker ballyhoo and livelier amusements. He may yet make Treasure Island a bigger attraction. Most notable of its present sights...
...tall, spare Actor Henry Fonda stayed home nights to read up on the part, acted Lincolnesque on the set and off. During the filming he walked on three-inch stilts built into his boots, wore a rubber buildup on his nose and an applied wart on his right cheek. Director John Ford (The Informer) refused to see Fonda without his makeup, refused to let superProducer Darryl F. Zanuck dabble in the job, turned out, as a result, a jim-dandy piece of Lincoln mythology...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, last night confirmed the reports that there would be no Jayvee competition in baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, and fencing during the 1939-40 season...
...athletic director pointed out that the Junior Varsity teams would actually be incorporated in the intra-mural program, and that accomodations for the growing House sports system, particularly in hockey, were under consideration. This means an added expense for intra-mural sports as a whole...
Mogul Goldwyn has outdone himself to make Wuthering Heights not only a faithful representation of the book, making only excusable cuts, but a superb picture. To maintain such a consistent mood of grim decadence is no easy job for a motion picture, yet director, producer, and cast have held that mood and made Wuthering Heights into a tremendously convincing tragedy. But of all those who had a hand in the picture Laurence Oliver deserves the largest share of credit. Here is a Robert Taylor with some guts, a Clark Gable who knows...