Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reginald ("Red") Rowland, 53-Year-old British cinema manager who claims to be the author of the dirty war ditty Mademoiselle from Armentieres (pronounced-for the purposes of the song-"armentaire"), told a newsreporter at his home in Sutton, Surrey, England: "I am trying to do a piece for the lads in this war. You know, though, they say it's only once in a lifetime that you do a masterpiece. But that wasn't a masterpiece, of course. The fact is, it was the utterest tripe, old boy, the utterest tripe...
...this chronicle of wasted crime, Producer-Director Rowland Lee and his Scripter-Brother Robert N. Lee claim they boned through 350 volumes of British history. The picture suggests that they might have achieved the same result with less labor by referring to Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England, since, as history, this period thriller is considerably less authentic than its elaborately spooky reproductions of London's Tower. But the battles of Tewkesbury and Bosworth with nickering horses and the knightly clang of iron against iron set a new high for realistic racket that should deafen...
...Richard Howard, Chester Walton Jenks, Howard Arthur Joos. Milton Wallace Kelly, Horace Goodwin Killam, Jr., Robert Frederick Kolkebeck, Warron Julian Loring, Donald Edward McNicol, Alexander D. Mebane, Berkeley Davis More, Peter Hans Muench, James McGee Phillips, Allen Dwight Sapp, Jr., Richard Blaisdell Seymour, Alan Gregory Skelly, Paul Southwick, Oliver Rowland Blanchard Statler, Edmund John Steytler...
...Chicago & North Western Railway was Lawyer Charles M. Thomson. As trustee for 927-mile Chicago & Eastern Illinois he had led the smaller road a long way toward financial convalescence. To C. & N. W. as President and operating head also went C. & E. I.'s weatherbeaten Executive Vice-President Rowland L. Williams...
Last week Lou Ruppel got a new job far removed from the din of replating. On December 28 he becomes publicity director of Columbia Broadcasting System.* His successor at the Times: quiet, serious Newseditor Rowland Wood...