Word: miller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guild, and the League of New York Theatres representing top producers (a notable exception, Gilbert Miller), agreed to give the playwright full control of play disposition after its legitimate production, also to give him 60% minimum instead of the previous 50% of film-rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau...
...Producer Miller's first importation this year is Author Rattigan's first successful play of any year. It is buoyant, imponderably slight. Its setting is the living room of M. Maingot's villa in the south of France, whither a group of young Englishmen have come to learn French in preparation for the ''diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans...
With this explanation and with the help of $10,000 contributed by late Merchant Edward Albert Filene as his last gesture toward reforming the world, Professor Clyde Raymond Miller of Columbia University's Teachers College, one of the most skillful propagandists of his time this week began to help U. S. citizens to "detect and analyze propaganda" at $2 a year From their Manhattan "laboratory" a small basement room near Columbia on Morningside Heights, Professor Miller and 15 other scholars sent this week to more than 3,000 U. S. newspaper editors, Congressmen, Governors, educators, ministers leaders of labor...
...play because the producers have been concealing from him their mad shifts and hair-breadth escapes from destruction. But the dangers springing from his violent disposition make the real play all the more exciting, and the comedy-writer's license takes care of the rest. So we see Gordon Miller, hare-brained producer, catching hold of Leo Davis, rustic playwright, rifling his pockets, pawning his typewriter, putting him to bed on account of measles with tape-worm complications, starving him almost to death and then making him play dead besides, all because nobody has any money and it wouldn...
...train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train stopped at Cheyenne, New Deal Senator H. Harry Schwartz, Governor Miller and Wyoming's one Representative, Paul R. Greever, who had all been invited aboard, were on hand. So was Senator O'Mahoney, uninvited but a member of a Citizens' Welcoming Committee. The joke appeared to be on Franklin Roosevelt. Said the President with gusto: "Hello, Joe! Glad...