Word: kummer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Konsul C. W. Kummer, 49, acting president of American Bemberg & Glanzatoff Corp. (rayon), director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15...
...unfaithful to him and who finds solace in the love of a girl who has been planted in his house by a gang of crooks, is as complicated as it sounds, yet never quite silly and never vulgar. A drama of manner is intended. The dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures...
...Legit." As to the legitimate stage, Mr. Fox has undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
...another Jockey, Clarence Kummer, who was hired to ride Mr. Whitney's Whiskery in the Kentucky Derby. But Kummer was recently suspended at Pimlico for rough riding. Mr. Whitney, forthwith, turned to Jockey McAtee with a "won't-you-come-back." Jockey McAtee came with a light heart and a light body...
William Gillette, actor: "The ancient legend that actors are kindhearted, especially to one another, came to light again last week when I charged a play broker with grand larceny because he kept $1,000 which I had instructed him to give to Clare Kummer, actress and playwright. In 1925, Miss Kummer was in financial straits, when the opening of one of her plays was delayed. I wanted to assist her with $1,000, but I did not wish her to know it, so I used an intermediary...