Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heads of the British merchant marine, representatives of six fleets totaling 52 trans-Atlantic liners valued at $275,000,000, gathered in London last week, emerged with a weighty pronouncement: because of the falling off in Atlantic trade and passenger traffic, the Cunard...
...Missouri, speaks with a slight southern accent. He began banking in his father's bank at Fulton, Mo., rose to vice-presidency of First National Bank of St. Louis, resigned that position in 1920 to take a similar office in Continental & Commercial National Bank. After Continental merged with Illinois Merchants Trust Co. in 1928, Banker Leavell was made executive vice president of Continental Illinois Co. (investment subsidiary), last year was made assistant to the chairman of the Company, assistant to the chairman of the bank. His election was no surprise, leaves the three principal offices of Continental Illinois filled...
Shylock as a stage character has been the subject of many various interpretations. For Fritz Leiber he was almost a tragic hero, while George Arliss played the role as a fawning and thoroughly wicked villain. In this latest production of "The Merchant of Venice" now playing at the Tremont, Mr. Maurice Moscovitch gives what seems to this reviewer to be the most intelligent estimation of the Jew of Venice that has been presented in recent years. Neither one extreme nor the other, Shylock, as Mr. Moscovitch portrays him, is a very complex character, a man who commands at once scorn...
...George Arliss several years ago provides a very beautiful background upon which to present so much good acting. If the company can get properly organized and Mr. Moscovitch not made too preponderant, there is no reason why this should not become one of the truly superlative productions of "The Merchant of Venice...
Ames, formerly managing director of the New Theatre is now manager of the Little and Booth Theatres in New York. His recent productions include "The Green Goddess", "Old English", and "The Merchant of Venice" with George Arliss, as well as "Beggar on Horseback", "White Wings" and "Escape". He will speak on his own methods of producing a play...