Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been returned by 31 other managements. The Abbott touch converted it into a Broadway hit, a $150,000 film property (Warners). Producer Abbott prefers to pick his plays out of the grab bag, or help write them himself, as he did Broadway (with Philip Dunning), Coquette (with Ann Preston Bridgers), Three Men On A Horse (with John Cecil Holm). He has produced plays by established authors, like the Bella & Samuel Spewack Boy Meets Girl, but his experience with warranted materials has not always been pleasant. Last year he presented Sweet River, an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...seriously. Last year in Detroit, where some 20,000 people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled his football team up from Boston by the roots, transplanted it to Washington...
There the Redskins have prospered. More people watched their first three home games this year than watched all their games last year. A good reason for this interest is George Preston Marshall, who is not new to Washington. Some 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries ("Long Live Linen'') on Washington street corners wash enough of Washington's starched shirts and white collars to supply Mr. Marshall with money for his sporting activities and his spectacular private life. For a brief blazing period he was publisher of Hearst's Washington Times. Even before that, he was taken...
Curator of the department since 1924 has been portly, silver-haired Henry Preston Rossiter, born 52 years ago in Canada, indebted for much of his knowledge of prints to two years' service in France, first as a subaltern and finally as a major, with the Canadian Infantry. Rossiter's way of relieving the monotony of war was to study catalogs from every dealer in Paris and London, buy cheap prints which could be taken up into the line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave...
...printers, the ruffled Brooklyn Eagle could thumb its beak last week at the C. I. O. American Newspaper Guild. Although about 300 editorial and business office Guildsmen were called out on strike after the Guild's demand for a contract was turned down, Publisher Millard Preston Goodfellow worked through day and night with a punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening editions, reminded the Guild of the contract between the Eagle and the International...