Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture-a-year contract with RKO, the terms for which he had been holding out were revealed. The terms: he will pick his own pictures, produce them under the Mercury banner (for RKO release), use Broadway instead of Hollywood players, serve as actor, co-author and director, and all without spending more than 18 weeks away from Broadway. First picture-Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness...
...addition to its crackling screen play (by Norman Reilly Raine and Warren Duff from Jerome Odium's novel), its sharp camera eye (Warners' Director William Keighley), Each Dawn I Die is made memorable by the easy mastery of its two principals. Cinemactors Cagney and Raft, the screen's two deadliest Ruffie MacTuffies, have been friends ever since they began their careers as vaudeville hoofers in Manhattan in the 205. Cagney was responsible for one of Raft's earliest cinema parts, a dancing bit in Cagney's Taxi. Their appropriate reunion, also celebrating their return...
...then economic soothsayer (and still his privy counselor), conservative Chicago Professor Jacob (Balanced Budget) Viner, induced Currie to leave Harvard, made him his assistant. Later that year, Chairman Marriner Stoddard (Unbalanced Budget) Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board spotted Currie for his technical qualifications, made him Assistant Director of Research and Statistics and personal adviser...
About the same time that twinkle-eyed Mr. Woodin left, Señor Oscar Benjamin Cintas, a director of the company and head of its Latin American subsidiaries, also went to the capital to take an official job: Cuban Ambassador to the U. S. Sometimes Charlie Hardy went down to see his friend Oscar and enjoyed the excellent Bacardi cocktails at the Cuban Embassy. After almost a year in Washington Oscar gave up his embassy and returned to the Latin American companies...
They had got along fine until last sum mer when Oscar Cintas finally blew up over what he regarded as a failure by Car & Foundry to go after Latin American business. He resigned as director and president of the company's Argentine, Brazilian and Cuban equipment subsidiaries. Last month, three weeks before A. C. F. reported a $1,662,692 deficit for the fiscal year, Oscar Cintas, from his ritzy suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, sent a bitter letter to stockholders charging that Car & Foundry's directors were on record for only minuscule blocks of stock...