Word: howards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime Minister George Howard Ferguson of Ontario, under whom that province went "wet" last year (TIME, July 4) announced, last week, a new honor for Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, famed Canadian banker-industrialist and chairman of the Imperial Canadian Munitions Board throughout...
...Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes rebutted that he would not dally with the "law reports of that learned man, William Shakespeare, especially the case...
...tell him, Mr. Fixit. I stutter." This bromide* has been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would...
This opisodic play, the story of which hinges around the life of an innocent but convicted murder, is well written and well produced. The cynosure throughout is Matt Denant in the form of Leslie Howard, the escaped convict with whom all sympathy lies--especially the sympathy of the ladies. He and the other artists portray their roles with vitality and emotion, though never fall into the melodramatic. With the exception of the second episode which is highly improbable the production is made lifelike and real. One does not wonder that the devoutly religious lady protects the convict with...
Commenting upon Walter Hampden's recent statement that the level of the stage would be lowered if Shakespeare were abandoned, Mr. Howard said. "I always read Shakespeare with a good deal of boredom at first, but the longer I am on the stage, and the more I write myself, the more I appreciate the man's greatness. I hope to play Shakespeare before very long, if only to gratify a whim. The plays that he wrote and those of his contemporaries are unequalled as far as an actor is concerned...