Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight or Never (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). Critics who feel that the cinema should be an independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly...
...Height: medium...
...would like, if possible, to avail myself of the opportunity through the medium of your paper to express to you the appreciation and gratitude of the Stanford Club of San Francisco...
...Harvard Law School (1912), belongs to six Manhattan clubs. But he spends most of his spare time in his laboratory, which is often full of Yale, Harvard, Princeton professors working on scientific projects. No commercial experiments are performed there. He cruises on his yacht; golfs and tennises adeptly. Medium-sized, with sharp dark eyes and brown curly hair, Banker Loomis likes to look like a businessman, dislikes the publicity given to his scientific work. He has three children, all boys: Alfred Lee Jr., 18; William Farnsworth, 16; Henry...
...Medium height and stoutish, the present Sage of East Aurora at 49 hunts, fishes, farms & rides much as did his famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary...