Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Valentino bullfighting picture Blood and Sand. For Director James Cruze she cut The Covered Wagon, worked on other material for him while he helped promote her into a directorship of her own. She directed Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, which gave Miss Arzner her reputation for handling emotional drama. Arzner successes since have always been with this sort of material, featuring women players like Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong), Anna Sten (Nona...
...Wilhelm Furtwangler did not assume directorship of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society because (1 the salary was inadequate, 2 leading musicians declared him incompetent, 3 the National Broadcasting Company cancelled its contract to broadcast concerts, 4 subscribers threatened to boycott next season's concerts because of his Nazi connections, 5 it was discovered that he had definite Communistic sympathies...
Under the directorship of Valentine J. Chapman, exchange student from England, "Lady Audley's Secret" has been prepared for revelation to a Puritan audience at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Production will take place in the Junior Common Room. Ladies may be invited...
...ugly contest between Clarence Wiley ("Doc") Spears and Walter Ernest ("Little Doctor") Meanwell for the athletic directorship of the University of Wisconsin started in 1932. That autumn Wisconsin's board of regents forced the athletic council to bring Spears on from Oregon to be head football coach. He accepted the job at a lower wage than he was getting at Oregon because alumni groups had promised him the athletic directorship within two years. In 1934 President Glenn Frank, apparently worried over Spears' reputation as an advocate of "bigtime" football, used his deciding vote on the board of regents...
...Kapitza has been appointed director of the new Institute of Physical Research. . . . This institute was especially founded for him by the Soviet Government. Large sums were set aside for the building and its equipment under the directorship of Professor Kapitza. ... As far as his personal life is concerned he is comfortably situated and receiving adequate remuneration...