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...Rochester Company is made possible by George Eastman, famed camera man. To him the idea of opera in English, sung by. U. S. and Canadian musicians, seemed worthy of a huge endowment, by which the Eastman school of music is supported, in association with the University. As a result, young singers are trained, presented in English Grand Opera in a repertory that includes Mozart's Abduction From the Harem, The Marriage of Figaro; Puccini's Madame Butterfly; Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe and Pirates of Penzance; and Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana. In Manhattan, the first three were presented. From...
...Penn State; Professor Frank C. Whitmore, chemistry head at Northwestern University; Director Willis R. Whitney of chemical research at the General Electric Co.'s Schenectady laboratories; Chemical-Director C. M. A. Stine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; Research Director C. E. K. Mees of the Eastman Kodak Co.; Frederick W. Willard of the Western Electric Co., Chicago...
Kodak-Pathé. Cabled Charles Pathé, president, Pathé-Cinema (red rooster trademark), to George Eastman (kodaks) at Rochester, N. Y.: "It is with great pride and great joy that I have just signed the agreement which associates my name with yours." He referred to last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...
...George Eastman whose perfection, in 1884, of the first practical roll film made the $1,500,000,000 motion picture industry possible, still lives at Rochester, N. Y., busy industrial city at the falls of the Genesee River. At 72, he has given away more than $58,000,000 -to the University of Rochester including its medical school and its Eastman School of Music; to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. He has also financed scientific expeditions (Time, March 22, 1926), research in electrolytic deposition of colloidal rubber (TIME, Nov. 8). At present his research staff...
...Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone; Major General Charles P. Summerall (Chief of Staff) ; Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel; Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry Ford; Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central; George Eastman, kodaks; Harvey S. Firestone, tires; Will H. Hays, cinemastar; John W. O'Leary, banker and president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, owner of the Saturday Evening Post and many another publication; Adolph S. Ochs...