Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close friends, ignorant but alert, observed that Composer Taylor was spending a good deal of time with his good friend Elmer Rice, wright of the Pulitzer prizeworthy play, Street Scene...
...Subway. Six years ago able Playwright Elmer Rice (The Adding Machine, Street Scene) tried to peddle this play. Twice it went as far as the casting process. Never, until last week, was it produced, except for a brief presentation at the Cam bridge Festival Theatre in England. Many a worse play has been produced, but this is not another Street Scene, save in method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds...
...Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson is not to be confused with Martin Elmer Johnson (no relative), most famed African-camera-hunter of them...
...Elmer Alder, in charge of the Pynson Printers, New York; Lewis C. Gandy, typographic director, New York Monotype Composition Company, New York; Nelson S. Greensfelder, advertising manager, Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Joseph B. Mills, publicity director, J. L. Hudson Company, department store, Detroit; William F. Rogers, advertising manager, Boston Evening Transcript, Boston; Thomas L. Ryan, Pedlar and Ryan, Incorporated, advertising agency, New York; Guy Smith, manager of advertising and research, Libby, McNeil and Libby, Chicago; P. L. Thomson '02, publicity manager, Western Electric Company, New York; Richard J. Walsh '07, president. The John Day Co., printers, New York...
Coming directly on top of the controversy raised by Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes' discussion of a "new religion" the general reaction on the layman of this sensationalism cannot fall to be unfortunate. Censorship and the passage of anti-evolution laws is enough evidence of the prejudice existing against anything which might disturb traditional opinions. Probably the only way to improve such a condition is by gradual education, and the press can do its share by being as informative as possible. To be sure, there is no particular sensation in the fact that a scientific man believes in evolution, but just...