Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sherman Brayton, Stephen H. Brennan, Jr., Charles H. Cretsmeyer, John W. Erhard, Herbert L. Furse, William T. Glendinning, Peter P. Hale, John H. Herrick, Douglas B. Kitchel, Captain Carroll R. Layman, Nathanael A. Lemke, Hertram M. Litman, Alexander C. Northrop, Winslow L. Pettingell, Theodore Plotkin, William W. Shirk, Robert C. Stuart, Adoniram J. Wells, Jr. William H. Wright, Jr. Manager, George H. Spencer...
...held a story conference to choose a feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
First calamity was the death of Director Lowell Sherman from pneumonia, when he had shot about one-third of the picture. Second was an attack of pneumonia for Miriam Hopkins, in the middle of a ballroom scene erected on a rented Pathe lot. Director Rouben Mamoulian, hired to replace Sherman, scrapped all the scenes made by his predecessor. A sequence carefully pieced together from 6,000 ft. of negative was burned in a projection machine and had to be recut, which took a week. During these tribulations, Jock Whitney flew to the coast nine times. Final difficulties with Becky Sharp...
Springfield, Mass. has four newspapers, all of them owned by big, tough Sherman Hoar Bowles. Besides the famed Republican founded by his ancestors, there are the Morning Union, Evening Union and the somewhat less respected Daily News...
...crack linotype operators on the News, Kenneth Irving Taylor, to quit his machine and take the foremanship of the composing room. Compositor Taylor, mild-mannered, bespectacled, member of the Springfield Board of Public Welfare, refused on grounds that his presidency of the local union forbade his being a boss. Sherman Bowles promptly fired him. Out, on their president's heels, walked every other typesetter in the four newspaper shops. Editors of both evening papers gathered together what type had been set, borrowed some type forms from the morning editions, rolled out a joint edition...