Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily Damita); Uncle Pio (Ernest Torrence), dismissed at last by the girl he has made famous?come to life in an imaginary country filled with splendid metaphors. Director Charles Brabin has translated these metaphors into concrete objects and scenery which give the cinema a reality not possible in written words. The emotional pitch of the story?a pitch originally far and not always convincingly above the pitch of prose life?becomes merely the concentration necessary for getting so many...
Mexican women are a favorite subject with Artist Martinez. He mingles much with them, in and out of his studio. Swarthy, melancholic, now in his 40's, he was longtime director of Mexico's Academy of Fine Arts. Mexico's artistic progressives, led by Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) do not count Artist Martinez in their number...
...McAdoo is just now cake-walking into aviation, he explained last week: "We're in a new era now. The rail-road boys must hustle to keep up. I ought to know." (He was War director of U. S. railways...
...will presumably have been settled. After the motion to adjourn had been carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president, in place of Van-man William McKinley Duncan, and threw out all the Vanmen directors, including Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life's new president. Director Leonor Fresnel Loree, head of Delaware & Hudson, was also dispossessed...
Moral encouragement if not tangible aid to the plight of 35,000 unemployed U. S. orchestra musicians (TIME, May 20), was contained in a remark made publicly last week in Paris by Director Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Said he: "A phenomenal musical renaissance is in progress in the U. S. Americans have the active temperament which, instead of retarding their artistic perceptions, has been the salvation of America's artistic development. They have stimulated orchestral advancement, just as they have created immense business enterprises. The American people have an inordinate genius for growth...