Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first coming to Washington, the President ordered a suit from an H Street tailor; price, $65. Today his suits are of a type for which from $125 to $140 is standard price. He usually choses suits of blue or grey; has one brown suit, purchased at Mrs. Coolidge's suggestion that he vary his colors. He -'likes to wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third...
...While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained: "I do not think we could have filled the vacancy any other way. We wanted the right type...
...mind the whole performance of these two, ably supported by Lionel Banrymore, represents a high point in cinema art. For once, in "The Show," we have a hero who is not the ideal of the author of the Rover Boy series, a type taken over bodily by the "movies", Gilbert portrays a man who is a thorough sconndrel, and yet somehow likeable despite that fact, and he portrays the part with a very deft touch...
When confronted with the question of whether he did not think that Harvard, the center for America's sophisticated youth, was hardly the place from which to choose the actors. Mr. Williams smiled and said, "No, the Harvard type is just what they want. With his perfectly impervious expression of indifference and his deep resouceful eye, the Crimson undergraduate is just the man for Hollywood...
...tests taken at Harvard are a part of the nationwide project of the First National Studios to obtain 10 college men of representative type to become moving picture actors. From each of the 33 colleges to be visited, ten men will be chosen. Of this number, after careful consideration of prospective ability, character and apitude of each of the contestants, ten candidates will be chosen who will be given an eight-week try-out in the First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with...