Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants to pass a bar of chocolate...
...Root (Yale 1922), onetime theatre critic for TIME, wrote this cinema of the adventure of the son of a janitor and a girl from a Wild West show in the shadow of Holder Tower. Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) directed it. Like loyal sons of Eli, the author and director asked permission to shoot the college scenes on their own campus but were turned down by New Haven authorities, annoyed by the many unauthorized pictures which have shown Yale men as debauchees...
...Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded last week to Dr. Charles Nicolle, director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis! He got it for his work on infectious fevers. particularly those caused by micro-organ isms so minute that they filter through the pores of unglazed porcelain...
...pictures were loaned by Mr. & Mrs. Cheer Dale of Manhattan. The red-headed Mr. Dale is an investment banker, a member of the Stock Exchange, a director of Western railroads, New Jersey public utilities. During the war he established a Liberty Loan office, sold innumerable bonds. His dynamic existence takes him twice a year to France. He chases over the fairways at St. Cloud, chases to art collectors, buys with zest. With him goes the gracious Mrs. Dale, herself a painter of stage decorations, a writer of cogent art criticism. In three years they have gathered more than 300 modern...
...Hollywood, Universal Co. began to make The Five Frankforters, a story about the Rothschild family. Assistant director is Wilfred Rothschild, onetime Wall Street runner, member of the family...