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...April 1929 Mr. Meyer resigned from Government service, loitered expectantly about Washington where he had a large house on Meridian Heights, just off 16th Street. He and his wife, who was the classically beautiful Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, had become an integral part of the capital's society. Their entertainments were lavish compared to the stylelessness of other Washington parties. Just before her husband's retirement Mrs. Meyer had unsuccessfully attempted to restore social peace between Mrs. Dolly Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at an elaborate garden fête (TIME...
...bring his invention to completion. Since then the general principle underlying Nipkow's invention has not been changed. Foremost U. S. workers on television: Herbert Ives, Bell Telephone Laboratories, who demonstrated the practicability of the use of color last year, of two-way television this year; Dr. Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, General Electric, who has worked for the past year in enlarging the size of the image, making it practical for theatre use; C. Francis Jenkins, Jenkins Television Corp., who began public demonstrations last spring in Jersey City; Vladimir Zworkyin, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., who developed a new type...
Last week the reformed Young German Order appeared to be the backbone of the Staatspartei. Also in the fold was the old Democratic Party, which has been losing deputies at every election since 1919 until its formal dissolution last week. Friedrich Baltrusch and Ernst Lemeer, Protestant Trade Unions leaders, were listed among the new party's leaders. Observers saw in this an attempt to bring into the Staatspartei the Protestant workers of Germany as the German Centrist party absorbed German Catholic workmen...
...Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...
...concerts tickets sold at $5. Besides Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens, guest maestros will include Karl Krueger (also at the Hollywood Bowl) and Josef Alexander Pasternack. Albert Coates and Willem van Hoogstraten will alternate as conductors between Philadelphia and Manhattan (see below). From Berlin will come Ernst Knoch, famed conductor of Wagnerian music...