Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the University Film Foundation board of trustees include Oakes Ames '98, supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum and director of the Botanical Museum, president of the Foundation; and as other directors Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum and of the Zoological Museum, C. P. Curtis; Jr. '13, a fellow of Harvard College, H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Edward Reynolds '81, curator of the Peabody Museum, and Alexander Hamilton Rice '98, gold medalist of the Royal Geographic Society, scientist, and explorer, who has been given an appointment at the Harvard Medical School...
...Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just...
...shot came a few minutes before banks were due to open. That morning the doors of Plum's comparatively small Folkebank (capital $1,600,000) remained locked. Cousin Bretteville Plum, the bank's Managing Director, scouted the police theory that Tycoon Plum had intended to commit suicide. Stock of the Folkebank dropped only 15 points. Hours dragged by, with Plum the Great unconscious...
...Director of the investigation was Carnegie staff member Howard James Savage, onetime English teacher (Harvard, Bryn Mawr), Encyclopedia Britannica contributor (U. S. Athletic Sports). Other field workers: John Terence McGovern, oldtime Cornell runner (1900), member of U. S. Olympic Commission (1921), Encyclopedia contributor (Track and Field Sports); Harold W. Bentley, Columbia University Spanish Instructor, Encyclopedia contributor (Sports); Dean F. Smiley, M. D., Cornell medical adviser. The Bulletin's preface was written by Carnegie Foundation President Henry Smith Pritchett himself, famed Astronomer, onetime (1900-1906) President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...with Dr. Hugo Eckener, as usual in need of construction money, for the American rights to build rigid airships and for the loan of some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener became a director/ Most important for the U. S. company was the transfer of Dr. Karl Arnstein, Prague-born chief engineer of the German company, to Akron...