Word: elisha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jolly Irish ending with marriage in the offing and with the moral that, after all. "motherhood is God's greatest gift to humanity." Her Unborn Child may run another ten days or ten months, depending on how well Manhattan women like to leave the theatre with wet handkerchiefs. Elisha Cooke Jr., in the comedy role, was better than his lines...
Among his selections will be the following: the story of Naaman and Elisha, selections from the Book of Ruth, and the third chapter of the General Epistle of James; and from Shakespeare, the famous Crispin speech of Henry V, before the Battle of Agincourt, and several scenes from Macbeth...
...required to submit a brief essay on "Why I Would Like a Technical Education;" will be queried on engineering or scientific projects they have conceived or executed. A committee composed of President Samuel W. Stratton of M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth...
...aroused were the buyers by the fourth day's display that they furnished almost $500,000 for the remaining pieces in the Salomon Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier...
While cinema producers, distributors and exhibitors reported their accomplishments and plans (TIME, March 28) Elmer Pearson, vice president and general manager of Pathe Exchange Inc., conducted quiet pourparlers with President Elisha Walker of Blair & Co. (investment bankers who control the Pathe Co.); with General Manager John J. Murdock of B. F. Keith Corp. (vaudeville theatres), President Mark E. Heiman of Orpheum Circuit Inc. (vaudeville theatres) and Cinema Director Cecil B. De Mille (whose productions Producers Distributing Corp. have handled...