Word: merton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...theatre is so blessed with the Midas touch as George S. Kaufman. Sole author of only one show (The Butter and Egg Man-1925), from 1921 to 1935 he has year after year collaborated on such historic hits as Dnloy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll...
...into Consolidated Funds plus Equity's own money put Mr. Milton into Equity. Said Lawyer Schenker: ''[It's] a Van Sweringen operation in the investment trust field." After detailing various operations of Equity Corp., Mr. Schenker drew from Mr. Milton testimony about the formation of Merton Shares, a Canadian corporation, asked him why he had gone to Canada to insure success in a U. S. transaction. Apologized Mr. Milton: "I don't know, it could perhaps have been done some other way. It was a continual headache...
Bunker Bean (RKO). Admirers of Harry Leon Wilson's famed Merton of the Movies will find in Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume...
...British North America within the Navigation System, 1783-1820; Wilbur K. Jordan, The Development of Religious Toleration in England; Robert K. Lamb, The Economic Development of Fall River from 1813 to the Present Day; William L. Langer, The Social and Intellectual Aspects of European History, 1832-52; Robert K. Merton, The Inter-relation of Science, Technology and Society in 17th Century England; and Abbott P. Usher, The Early History of Banking...
...Merton Hodge's "The Wind and the Rain" blows in frenzied gusts across the Peabody stage, and leaves one touched by its graceful play of emotions, and gently stirred by its restrained passions. This is not a play to convulse the spectator with vicarious woe, nor to rack his brain with subtle problems of mind and soul. It rather wins his benevolent sympathy for the characters who are ruffled but not torn...