Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curtain Call (by LeRoy Bailey; Quigley-Schachtel Inc., producers) is interesting as a nearly perfect example of a bad play. In his stage-struck youth. Author Bailey joined the company of the illustrious Eleanora Duse in Pittsburgh, did odd jobs for nothing while he studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved...
...First was Charles Trusty of the Pittsburgh presbytery...
...last March in the Pittsburgh offices of the biggest steel-producing unit in the world, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...
Grand Hose Knight, a job at least analogous to president, is Frank H. Ellis, a Pittsburgh filling station operator and treasurer of NAPR. Grand Knight Ellis, who at ten lost his right leg hopping a freight train, also owns a paint and feed business in Pittsburgh's South Side steel district, once ran unsuccessfully for Congress. Sipping a bottle of beer in his office last week he observed: "Knights of the Hose is a name that fully covers our business, and any Knight or future Knight can readily see that the serious and comic slants of our business...
Lines. Both these ships will be commissioned by U. S. Steel's Pittsburgh Steamship Co., biggest steamship line on the Lakes, about half of whose 72 freighters were in Whitefish Bay last week. Second biggest line, with 47 ships, is Interlake Steamship Co., an affiliate of old & famed Pickands-Mather & Co., coal & iron. Notable among independent companies is the Tomlinson Fleet, founded in 1901 by Cleveland's crotchety George Ashley Tomlinson, 71, colleague of George A. Ball in the great Van Sweringen Deal (TIME, Dec. 14 et seq.), whose transportation interests were further enlarged fortnight ago when...