Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transgression. Many a citizen wondered whether the Lobby Committee had not transgressed even senatorial privilege when it examined another potent Eastern banker, Fred I. Kent, director of Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan. In a public speech Banker Kent had blamed the Senate and the Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition for the stockmarket break. The four members of that coalition on the Lobby Committee (Caraway, Walsh, Elaine. Borah) made for Banker Kent in rough-and-tumble fashion...
...Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza has approved his last choice, ordered the opera complete and ready for delivery by spring...
...famed La Scala opera would henceforth be under government control, that a Fascist commissioner would dictate its programs, the selection of artists. Many there were in Italy and the U. S. who linked this news with the resignation last fall of Arturo Toscanini after nine years as La Scala director. He, it is said, foresaw the Fascist rule. He, it is known, can brook no interference with a musical enterprise under his direction...
...finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces hung with cascades of stairs, a royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither this background nor the heavy-footed dialog is well adapted to the natural technique...
Died. Warwick Greene, 49, president of New England Oil Refining Co. ; at Boston; after an operation. Onetime (1910-1915) Director of Philippine Public Works, he was Director of Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission (1916), served in France and Belgium with the American Red Cross commission...