Word: motions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sweringens had no right to vote stock which they had acquired and were holding in defiance of the I. C. C. Compromising, the Van Sweringens voted to adjourn the meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings will presumably have been settled. After the motion to adjourn had been carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president, in place of Van-man William McKinley Duncan, and threw out all the Vanmen directors, including Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life...
...post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with an up-and-down motion of the elbows which has brought him, among newsmen, the title of "The Jersey Buzzard," which he bears cheerfully. Lately his earnestness is reported to have taken the form of deep religious feeling...
Douglas Fairbanks, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presided in Los Angeles last week when the Academy's annual prizes were awarded. Among the winners : Acting - Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven) ; Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command) ; Directing - Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) ; Engineering Effects - Roy Pomeroy (Wings) ; Outstanding Picture - Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. (Wings). Charles Chaplin was specially rewarded for being writer, actor, director, producer of The Circus...
Last week in San Francisco a lawsuit was pending under which the local union sought to compel various motion picture theatres which have installed sound equipment to employ members of the musicians' union, under a contract entered into last year with Allied Amusement Industries...
Meanwhile, the average weekly demand for musicians at member-studios of the Association of Motion Picture Producers is from 150 to 175 players. Weekly pay checks for such positions run high, ranging from $350 to $600. But the average musician out of work is not qualified for the job. Only men of highest calibre are equipped for the delicate work of recording for synchronized sound films. And the cinema studios are already beginning to cut down the size of their recording personnel...