Word: nagel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...screen musical shows, in spite of a somewhat tiresome manner of presentation that involves letting the curtain fall every five minutes. But this straight revue method fortunately prevents any attempt to graft the customary inane plot on the picture. The individual scenes are introduced by Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel, who for the most part are successful in making this barren role humorous. The acts themselves are excellent, with the exception of a peculiarly irritating sob-ballad by Charles King...
...Circus Owner John Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed him poisoned oranges but he was wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull.* While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted, Nagel kept on firing, exhausted...
HARVARD BRIDGEWATER Faude, g. g., Nagel Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Desmond Catinella, r.f.b. c.f.b., Ford Howe, r.h.b. l.h.b., Mantyla Kane, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hill Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b. Longmore Carrigan, l.o.f. r.o.f., Martin Frame, l.i.f. r.i.f., Sweeney Broadbent, c.f: c.f., Culler Dorman, r.i.f. l.i.f., Carriro Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Purdon...
HARVARD BRIDGEWATER Faude, g. g., Nagel Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Desmond Catinella, r.f.b. l.f.b., Ford Howe, r.h.b. l.h.b., Mantyla Kane, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hill Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., Longmore Carrigan, l.o.f. r.o.f., Martin Frame, l.i.f. r.i.f., Sweeney Broadbent, c.f. c.f., Culler Dorman, r.i.f. l.i.f., Carriro Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Purdon...
...point in the campaign of Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) to enforce the Equity closed shop in Hollywood (TIME, July 8, Aug. 5). Six cinemactors, with Equity approval, met with delegates of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, hitherto haughtily oblivious of Equity demands. The actors: Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Edmund Lowe, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Ralph Forbes. Though the meetings were secret, observers were cheered by signs of arbitration after weeks of feverish, noisy invective...