Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This ungrateful criticism is by no means a reflection on the cast, who really couldn't help themselves. They have placed themselves in the hands of a director who through ignorance violates the spirit of college theatricals. Their fellow clubmen have given them a fine score, good lyrics, a passable book and amusing stage sets; if they remind Mr. Lilley that he is not directing for Earl Carroll, they can make a good show out of it before it hits Boston. Even if they don't it will still be fair enough...
...behind the Illinois Symphony's sudden artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving...
...Hayden investigated them carefully, sometimes in person. Once he made a surprise visit, incognito, to a camp, asked the director what he wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...
...highly censorable picture that made Hedy Lamarr famous, got her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was Ecstasy, made in Czechoslovakia in 1933. Last week cinema columnists suddenly discovered that the director of Ecstasy, Gustav Machaty, has for the past two years also been under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom he has turned out one low-budget picture called Within the Law. Cause of the discovery: Director Machaty's announcement, on the expiration of his contract, that he intended to make a sequel called The Girl of Ecstasy, conforming to the Hays production code and starring...
Born. To William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman, 43, crack cinema director (Nothing Sacred, Men With Wings), and his fourth wife: a daughter, their third child; in Hollywood...