Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make much or most of their incomes from the great bustling film industry, he knows that legitimate show business is not very big business, not even business. It is a gamble for all concerned and even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses $15,000 a week. George Abbott is lucky to get $12,000 out of Brother Rat. The only real money in show business comes occasionally from Hollywood, when a Goldwyn offers $160,000 for a Dodsworth or Columbia gets You Can't Take...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three-year-old race horse Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
Best-publicized firm of counselors is the ilbert & Sullivan Organization with offices in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Gilbert & Sullivan have produced no Pirates of Penzance but they have penned a number of pamphlet contributions to the growing stack of insurance criticism. David Gilbert is an oldtime insurance counselor who joined forces with James P. Sullivan last November. Mr. Sullivan was an actuary who had been examiner for Congressman Sabath's ubiquitous investigating committee. In general Gilbert & Sullivan believe that it is smarter to buy cheap renewable term insurance, which has little or no cash value and permits the policyholder...
...after the bars were let down at the Bar Association, the names of six women, lawyers were posted on the bulletin board at No. 42 West 44th Street to be voted en. One was Lawyer Susan Brandeis (Mrs. Jacob H. Gilbert), whose pet dislike is to be referred to as the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis because she does not want to trade on her father's fame. Plump, fortyish. the mother of two boys and a girl, Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the New York State Board of Regents (educational overseers) and maintains...
...Columbia Lineup will have August Ganzenmuller at number one, supported by Ray Antignot, Charles Gilbert, Robert, Enrich, David Mason, and James Wall...