Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, spoke one day last week M. Maurice Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce and Aviation, director of the Postal Service. A few minutes later he stepped into an airplane which rose unsteadily to an altitude of 300 feet. Suddenly a sheet of flame shot from the motor. The plane crashed down in flames. Two hours later M. Bokanowski's body was extricated from the twisted steel...
Died. Mrs. Walston Hill Brown, famed suffragist, director of Illinois House, hospital in which over 20,000 World War veterans were treated, daughter of the late Robert G. Ingersoll, famed agnostic; in Riverside, Conn...
More recently many schools and colleges in the U. S. adopted the honor system. During examination hours, therefore, schoolmasters could do anything they liked. They could titter over Petronius, they could play golf. Life became easy for the masters (from magister [Latin]: master, director, superintendent) during examination hours...
...able to dominate Hollywood, are the studios of the mighty UFA (Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft), chief among European cinema companies. Here were filmed such popular and artistic successes as Variety, The Last Laugh, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. And from Neubabelsberg, last week, there journeyed many a cinemactor, many a director, to the Berlin premiere of UFA's latest production, The Homecoming...
Herr Hugenberg remained in the background while the Congress deliberated. But his lieutenant, General Director Ludwig Klitzsch of UFA, made a significant speech. He hinted at new tariffs to keep the flood of U. S. pictures from German theatres. He spoke of "cooperation in the European film industry and the word 'film-Europe,' " strongly suggestive of a European cartel aimed at the U. S. cinema industry. When he had finished, alarmed U. S. observers hastened to Paris to confer...