Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Darryl Zanuck, for five years general production manager of Warner Bros. First National Studios, resigned "due to a disagreement of policy in company management." The emergency board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had ruled the bank holiday cut of 50% in studio salaries should be ended by Warner Bros, and full pay be restored April 10. When Warner Bros, refused to restore full pay until April 17, Mr. Zanuck, who had given his word to the employes, resigned...
...stunning array of truly exceptional dramatic and motion picture offerings which confront Boston theatregoers this week sets the high water mark for the year. The polished Abbey Players with their beautiful Elleen Crowo present a sophisticated yet poetically smooth type of drama that must appeal to the most sincere and intellectual appreciation...
...foot of the bottle, the fire was embers, Dawn reached rosy fingers to snatch back reality. The Vagabond shook himself, gazed at his empty lair, stretched in preparation for a new day. At nine o'clock he will saunter spryly into Sever 22 to hear Mr. Curtiss discourse on "Motion in Polar Coordinates," for Roger Bacon, first of the moderns, said "Mathematics prepares the mind and elevates it to a sure knowledge of all things," for in numbers lies the only Truth...
...Furthering of French motion pictures...
...against the ground, disabling her for weeks. Nevertheless, the Committee gave the ship a clean bill of health, but not without minority utterances by Representatives McClintic and Patrick J. Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion of Congressman McClintic, no longer a committeeman. the Akron quiz was taken away from Naval Affairs and given to a joint Senate-&-House committee "that won't whitewash the Navy...