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...panel of leading producers, directors, educators, actors and critics from which the committee of judges will be chosen to pass upon manuscripts submitted in the second play competition, will include: Richard Aldrich, Winthrop Ames, Delos Chappell, Alfred de Liagre, Jr., Max Gordon, Lawrence Langner, Gilbert Miller, Brock Pemberton, Rowland Stolibins, producers; Ina Claire, George M. Cohan, Lynn Fontaine, Walter Hampden, Helen Hayes, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, actors; John Gasson, John Hanrahan, Joseph Wood Krutch, Burns Mantle, Ruth Pickering, critics and editors; Edward Goodman, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Worthington Miner, Philip Moeller, Antoinette Perry, Leo Strasborg, directors; A. M. Drummond...
...JOHN C. PEMBERTON...
...Union veterans of the 47-day siege of Vicksburg, Miss., went Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant III U.S.A. and Manhattan Lawyer John Clifford Pernberton III, grandsons respectively of Vicksburg's Union besieger and Confederate defender. Said Grandson Grant, shaking hands: "Two good Generals and a great fight." Said Grandson Pemberton: "Yes, but they paid off on your grand-daddy...
...Done It (by Mary Coyle Chase; Brock Pemberton, producer) is notable for being the first play to emerge from the sub-professional Federal Theatre as a regular Broadway production. There its distinction ends, for in spite or because of extensive revision by Director Antoinette Perry (Strictly Dishonorable) and her daughter Margaret's determined impersonation of a bordello's ex-cashier who gets a pretentious politician's family in and out of several difficulties, the show struck most critics as being stereotyped, strained, spurious...
...that KVOS was not "unfairly competing" with A. P., refused to grant the injunction. When a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, the National Association of Broadcasters decided it had had enough and withdrew. Carrying on by himself, sturdy Rogan Jones retained Lawyer William H. Pemberton of 'Olympia, carried the case to the U. S. Supreme Court when the A. P. asked for temporary and permanent injunction. For the A. P., counsel was handsome old John W Davis & staff...