Word: myron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refugees at once. President Roosevelt last week expressed himself against this course, but he did exercise his power to extend for six months the visitors' permits of some 12,000 Germans (of all races and creeds) now in the U. S. The President also asked Myron Charles Taylor, now serving as U. S. representative on the Intergovernmental Committee of Political Refugees, to return at once to London, redouble the effort to find some place in the world for unwanted Jews...
...Sisters (Warner Bros.) substitutes for Dreiserian strength, tenacity and patience;-chief merits of the Myron Brinig novel from which it was adapted-the cinematically more essential merits of pace, tidiness and scenic value. Opening at an election-night ball in the mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage...
National Rifle and Pistol Matches (Sat. 12 noon, MBS). Sharpshooters compete for the Myron T. Herrick Trophy at Camp Perry, Ohio...
Only major effort of the cinema industry's craftsmen to grab the profits of their own pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system...
...Myron Selznick's brother, Producer David Selznick, last fortnight made news by hiring his onetime boss at Paramount, Benjamin P. Schulberg, as an assistant at Selznick International. Both Selznicks are sons of the late, famed Lewis J. Selznick ("Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours"), kingpin of the industry during and just after the War, whose major worries, before he failed in 1923, were: 1) how to get stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs...