Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after its opening, Producer Gilbert Miller attended a performance. When the final curtain descended he proceeded not to the street but to the producer's office. It was 3 a.m. when he finally left. It had taken him all that time to negotiate successfully for the U.S. rights. He at once placed an English company in rehearsal, played it a week in a theatre in London, sailed with it for the U.S. The company rehearsed all the way over on the boat. The players reached New York early last week, rested a day, made their debut in Great...
...globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...
...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...
...view. That the age had something to say is very powerfully shown in such pictures as Van Gogh's "L' Arlesienne", lent by Mr. Adolph Lewisohn; the "Still Life Study of Fruit," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster; the "Street in Arles," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert E. Fuller; or the "Postman"--M. Roulin, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine II. There is vitality of drawing and an expression of energy in every line--a certain growing quality that must be recognized whether you like it or not. The handling of color is masterly...
...institute to absorb all the functions of the present Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, and of the Reparations Commission and the transfer committee...