Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America, I think to be on the right address. I am 18 years of age, was born in Vienna and am of a very good family. By profession I am bodicemacer and am thoroughly versed in all commercial branches. I am perfect in German, English, French, Spanish and speak some Italien...
...handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created a great stir by thanking Sudeten German delegates for having met him at the station. Vexed Czechs made tart comments. Sudetens, learning with glee that "the British milord speaks German but he does not speak Czech," began referring to him as "Runzelmann" -which, freely translated, means The Man With the Wrinkled (i.e., Thoughtful) Brow...
...rewrote Wagner's overture to Tannhauser, and omits only the banker who put up the money. Because cinemaddicts pay little attention to this list except to deplore it, they entertain vague notions, that moving pictures are either: 1) made haphazard by a collection of overpaid addleheads who speak only a few words of English; or 2) the result of a mass inspiration upon the most miraculously gifted group of creative artists ever simultaneously assembled on the globe. Twenty-five years ago, movies were indeed manufactured helter-skelter by almost anyone who had $5,000 and an urge...
...cast hired, the director is in sole charge until, cutting finished, the picture goes on view. A director's function is primarily that of a highschool, dramatic coach, raised to a fabulous power of complexity. He tells $5,000-a-week stars where to stand and how to speak, screenwriters with millionaires' incomes how to rewrite the classics they are translating into the topical vernacular, photographers where to point cameras as big as limousines, art directors to fabricate rooms, streets or cities. If producers are top dogs of the cinema as an industry, directors are its top craftsmen...
Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...