Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wesley McKee, graduate of the Yale School of the Drama, arrived here two days ago to take charge of the direction of the play. McKee was director of the original New York production of Sigurjonsson's "The Farm" and was former director of the Connecticut Summer Company. In 1934 and 1935 he won first prize in the New York competition for the production and direction of plays...
...board were named to the new: Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles, New Dealing banker from Utah; Menc S. Szymczak, onetime comptroller of Chicago. The new appointees: Joseph A. Broderick. onetime New York State superintendent of banks; Ronald Ransom, executive vice president of Fulton National Bank of Atlanta; John K. McKee, onetime receiver for National banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for the last two and one half years chief examiner for RFC; Ralph W. Morrison. Texas Hydro-electric tycoon, who in 1933 was one of the U. S. delegates to the World Monetary & Economic Conference at London...
...dilettantes. But Iowa "Conservatives" sent up a howl because the river was grey and did not look enough like water. Judge Tellander also gave a prize to a Country Gas Station by Harry D. Jones of Des Moines, which showed pumps leaning crazily on a steep hill. Secretary Alice McKee Gumming of the Iowa Art Guild damned this as a caricature. It was all most painful to Zenobia Ness, instructor in the home economics department of the State College at Ames and supervisor of the Fair's Art Salon. Tactfully taking no sides, she could not help admitting: "It certainly...
...Thereafter, his luck failed in cinema and he spent 15 years as a character actor on the Manhattan stage until his work in a Coast company of Whistling in the Dark got him a few small parts in Hollywood in 1932. His performance as a bibulous millionaire in Sadie McKee last year was a cinema classic. Producer B. P. Schulberg currently pays him $ 1,000 a week on a yearly basis, lends him to outside producers like Edmund Grainger who give him much more for short engagements...
...usual, Mr. Szathmary's impecesble English enabled him to turn in an almost perfect performance. Robert McKee was sufficiently imbecile as a fishmonger, and awfully impressive as an angel. And Agnes Love, as Mrs. Resurrection Jones, was certainly all that could be asked