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...assignments. He has been a consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter, William V. Griffin, Duncan Spencer; Henry Codman Potter, onetime assistant stage...
...Agassiz, Charles Almy, P. deM, Bailey, S. H. Batchelder, W. C. Bayhes, J. C. Bayley, Everett Bradley F. M. Bud, Godfrey Cabot, David Cheever, Algernon Coolidge, Juiian Coolidge, C. P. Curtis, G. S. Curtis, H. T. Cutler, Bradford Dorr, J. D. M. Ford, Q. M. Fowle, K. Francke, Langdon Frothingham, G. P. Gardiner, P. W. Gentleman, J. H. Gifford, E. P. Goodnow, L. C. Graton, Frederick Haldsworth, G. W. Harrington, H. M. Houser, C. E. lndus...
...trials and tribulations of a movie comedian and the rise of the talkies in the motion picture industry were the topics which Harry Langdon, famous movie comedian, now appearing at the Keith Albee Theatre discussed with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Anybody who thinks the life of a movie actor an easy one is all wrong," said Harry. "It takes me about 14 weeks to make a picture and in that time I have to work hard all day. Then, because of tremendous overhead, which sometimes amounts to $10,000 a day, we have to do night sequences in which...
...Langdon said he was on his present vaudeville tour mainly for the purpose of getting his voice in shape for the talkies. He is to make his first talking picture in the Spring. "The talking pictures are a howling success," he said. "In the end, the success or failure of a movie is judged by the box office returns it brings, and in this respect the talkies have surely made good. The talkies are now just in their infancy. If one compares the automobile of 20 years ago to the present model and then judges the talkies by the same...
...Japanese trip from which I have just returned was in part the result of an offer by the New Imperial Institute of Research of Japan to the Fogg Art Museum to cooperate in investigations of early Western and Eastern art," stated Professor Langdon Warner '03, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Warner has made numerous trips of exploration and excavation in central China and Thibet in search of remains of Maya civilization and has just gotten back from a visit in Japan...