Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Correspondents learn that, in addition to lunching, the delegates held a secret session in the Bank of France at which they unanimously besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more...
Telephone censorship was sufficiently relaxed so that one U. S. correspondent actually shouted to his Vienna office from Belgrade certain confirmative details respecting General Zivkovitch's role in the royal murders of 1903. Also the German newspapers Berliner Tageblatt and Vossische Zeitung, which were barred from Jugoslavia for criticizing the dictatorship, are now admitted freely...
...four chosen out of 400 applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought her to the U. S. in the Moscow Art play, Carmencita and Her Soldier; when it was booked in Los Angeles she took a screen test. In California she played the role of the nun in the road company of The Miracle. She was in Forgotten Faces, The Street of Sin. Emil Jannings likes...
George Bancroft's leading role in "The Wolf of Well Street" not only marks his first appearance in an "all talking" but also is made significant by a distinct advance in his ability as an actor. This film showing the back stage actions of the bears and bulls of the stock market would be little more than worthless without his stellar work assisted by Baclanova...
Keenest interest focused on the First Category, since its 16 members will constitute a sort of extraordinary upper house.* One name eclipsed the other 15 in significance?Roberto Farinacci. His role has been the most sinister in Fascist Italy, and the most obscure...