Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is an enormous difference," explains Director Hanson, "between music that is well-knit and sounds like Hell, and music that doesn't sound the way the composer intended it to sound. The first is competent musicianship; the second is not. . . . A competent composer deserves at least one hearing before an audience...
...portrait as The Life of Emile Zola, it has moments as gay and as revealing as either. Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement. And for Warners' star biographer, Director William Dieterle, Juárez is a bright new feather in an already well-decorated...
...that is not strange. Paramount's 1,200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed, the 212th he has produced. Some signs that Producer-Director DeMille, who at 58 still affects the leather puttees and riding breeches of his salad days, is still going strong...
...aviation was more interested in how two up-from-the-ranks pilots financed the purchase of the 70,000 shares Lehman Bros, sold them. Jack Frye refused to tell. Rumors dwelt on Millionaire Howard Hughes and Cinema Agent Leland Hayward, who last month became a T. W. A. director...
...Tall, handsome Charles Simonton McCain, who has headed both the smallest and the biggest U. S. bank, last week resigned his presidency of $577,000,000 United Light & Power Co. to become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president...