Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merger was likely. Thereupon up rose Nelson Rockefeller (John D.'s grandson), a Lincoln alumnus whose seven-year-old son Rodman is now in the school, to announce that he was having an investigation of the school made by leading educators. Chief investigator: Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of the Regents' recent $500,000 survey of New York's public schools...
...Gilbert & Sullivan Films). The year 1939 is the biggest season Gilbert & Sullivan ever had. Hot on the heels of Broadway's three Mikados-one hallmarked, one half-swing and one pure Harlem-comes the first Mikado in cinema. Made in England's Pinewood Studios last year by Director Victor Schertzinger and a quorum of first-string members of London's famed D'Oyly1"Carte Company, the screen version of the world's most famed operetta is a full-length, Technicolor facsimile of the original...
...Director Victor Schertzinger has long held that the cinema is a better medium for opera than the stage. Composer of the music for The Love Parade (1929), Schertzinger started his campaign to bring opera to the screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting the fashion for innumerable musical films. Since all works of Gilbert & Sullivan (except The Pirates of Penzance) are in the public domain in the U. S., he could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights...
Nazis of lesser faith find it a long wait. Dr. Hellmuth Langenbucher, Director in Chief of Literature, in Nazi Book News of April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest...
Accompanying the squad will be Crimson Coach Jaakko Mikkoia, Yale mentor Frank Kanaly, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Malcom Farmer, Director of Athletics at Yale. Roger Hooper '39, manager of the Crimson track team will precede the squad to England...