Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general has reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith. It may now make a new attempt, or may postpone operations until after Jan. i, 1931, in the hope that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt will be succeeded...
...Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...
...Wunder, long acquainted with members of the firm, became closely associated with them in the work of financing the Baptist Temple. They discovered that he, aged 36, is a dynamo for work. The Baptist Temple project includes successfully operating a 14-story office building and a commercial restaurant, organizing a community service plan, adding 1,300 new church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members...
...apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head of the man who could talk in any voice except his own. Director James Cruze, however, seemed convinced that he was directing a story about show business. Before long he neglected the ventriloquist to supply atmosphere in the form of chorus girls dancing, getting dressed, chattering, rehearsing. Best shot: the Great Gabbo going crazy because he cannot be himself...
...management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts to exhaustion. Last year, after finishing The Wedding March, a dull picture in spite of a budget so huge that the producers did not exploit the figures, he started to direct Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly. Limited strictly as to time...