Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon program, where Dean H.W. Holmes '03, will preside, there will be two speakers, Dr. W. T. Foster '01, Director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, and Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. Both these men are ranked among America's leading economists...
...Treasurer of Harvard when it had only $12,000,000. His wise management has raised this to $100,000,000. Twice he was elected mayor of Quincy on a Democratic ticket. And all the while his corporate interests spread out and out until, last week, his resignations as a director or trustee went to 55 concerns including the A. T. & T., American Sugar Refining, Boston and Albany R. R., Amoskeag, Waltham Watch...
...Girl on the Barge (Universal). A director with more interest in his material and with a better cast could have made a fine picture out of a hard-drinking, Scotch barge-captain's opposition to his daughter's romance with a deckhand. Indifferent, however, to life spun out in slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate...
...against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details (pulled punches in a fight; a fellow knocked into water coming up in dry clothes) Director Asquith gets across the savagery of city railroads...
Anthony Asquith, who was one of Oxford's most flagrant esthetes, called "Puffin," three years ago, went, last year, to Hollywood to study U. S. cinema technique. He was shown about by Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin. He is considered the best director in England today. His next film will be The Cottage at Darmoor...