Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majestic record of Tang Shao-yi is of weightiest import. His career began, like that of Candidate Hoover, in the development of large engineering enterprises and led to government posts comparable in China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang Shao-yi was sent to Washington as special...
Last week Abie's Irish Rose came back to Broadway as a film. It was harmlessly funny. In fact, it was as well done as it possibly could be. Miss Nichols had aided Victor Fleming (famed director of The Way of All Flesh) in putting it together. Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy (father of Abie) performed with dignity and feeling. The plot was slightly changed: Abie Levy (Charles Rogers) and Rosie Murphy (Nancy Carroll) get married secretly soon after the World War. Their parents' consent is not obtained until twins are born...
...University swimming pool, gymnasium, and locker building will definitely be constructed on the site of the present Freshman Athletic plant, it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...
Miss Braggiotti is well known in Boston where she is the director of the New England branch of the Braggiotti-Denishawn School of Dancing. She came into prominence during the World War, at which time she entertained in the special performances given at military camps...
...Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks of all kinds. Irving Pichel, deep-voiced and deliberate, made a splendid Lazarus. Gilmor Brown, who organized the Pasadena Players some ten years ago, played Tiberius and acted as director. His handling of mob scenes, much after the methods of Max Reinhardt, was always effective...