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...Glee Club, the Women's Glee Club, the Chapel Choir and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Messages of congratulations came in from President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, many a university president. Among famed alumni of Washington University are Taftian Secretary of Commerce & Labor Charles Nagel. Coolidgian Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Senators Roscoe Conklin Patterson and Harry Bartow Hawes, Publisher Conde Nast, Authoress Fannie Hurst, Missouri's present Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield. Washington has the West's richest university art collection (over...
...There is absolutely no reason for the present popular outbreak against crooners," exclaimed Conrad Nagel, film star in an interview last night. "In the first place, to call all tenors who sing popular songs 'crooners' is erroneous. It is distinctly wrong to classify them all under one head, because all of them that are at all advanced in their field are individual and have a particular technique which cannot be well duplicated. Crooning is an art, and should be recognized as such. Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with...
...reviewer first approached, Mr. Nagel said in one breath, "My pet aversions are sweetened cornbread and night clubs, now what do you want to know?" The actor gave a talk on Tuesday on censorship, an address which came in for a share of criticism during the interview. "If censors are sincere in their desire to eradicate filth." Nagel remarked, "they will direct their efforts to all sources of filth. The censors now spend most of their time getting their names in the papers by either attacking the movies or the stage. This produces an effect upon the public which...
...CONRAD NAGEL...
First suggested at a dinner given in 1927 by Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Director Fred Niblo, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel and Fred Beetson, the Academy now has 700 members-writers, actors, technicians, production executives, directors. Its main concern is the welfare of the cinema industry. Dissenters regard it as a company union since producers used it two years ago as a weapon to defeat Equity's attempt to organize cinemactors. Annually, each of the five Academy branches selects five nominees in its own branch for an award of merit. The five highest nominations are then submitted...