Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three main roles of Paris, Ajax, and Diomedes have not yet been cast, Director Peter Temple '47 2B announced last night...
...time, Fritz Reiner's swimming got better and bolder. He was given a regular conductor's job in Budapest, then became director of the Dresden Opera, and an authority on Wagner, Richard Strauss, and his own favorite, Mozart. But in the U.S., where he has spent the past 26 years, he has been known primarily as a symphony conductor...
...Price. Not so, said FTC as it heard the chorus of businessmen calling on Congress to do something. The ban on basing points, said Corwin D. Edwards, director of FTC's Bureau of Industrial Economics, was simply a ban on using basing points to fix an industry-wide price. Said Edwards: "Nothing in these orders prevents individual sellers, who act without collusion, from absorbing freight . . . In the future, as in the past, there will be a wide variety of geographic pricing methods in use by different companies and different industries. No particular method of pricing will be prescribed...
Through a Loophole. Crosby, no mean businessman himself, became a director of Vacuum Foods, in which he recently bought 20,000 shares of stock at lof a share. He has agreed, at an undisclosed salary, to plug the juice on a transcribed song & chatter program five days a week. (Philco Corp., which has Crosby under exclusive contract, has agreed to let him be Minute Maid's man for a daily kind word for Philco products...
There is hardly a shot in the picture which fails to make the point that a really resourceful director is telling a story with the care and skill it deserves. Scene by scene, and shot by shot, the picture is almost wholly credible and pleasing. It is curious that such good moviemaking does not add up to more. One trouble may be that more talent and solemn care have gone into the show than the basic idea is worth. Also, loving attention to detail may have deprived the picture as a whole of form, drive and pace. It is still...