Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sherman Anti-Trust law. The U. S. cinema industry has long either controlled its desires or gratified them too adroitly to expose itself to punishment. Last week, in St. Louis, there began what may be the case which the Government has been looking for and the cinema industry avoiding. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives, were haled into court before Federal Judge George Moore, charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Maximum penalty is $5,000 and one year imprisonment. If defendants are guilty, the whole mechanism by which the industry...
Judges of the photographs and drawings are Langdon Warner '03, assistant curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Frank R. Frapie '98, editor of "American Photography," and of the paintings Frederick B. Robinson '31, of the Fogg Art Museum and Karl Zerbe...
Professor Warner, "Oriental Art," Van Renselaer Room, Fogg...
Special Agent (Warner) differs from other recent pictures of its school in that its hero (George Brent) is not a G-Man but a T-Man. He works for the Treasury Department and it is his business to bring a slimy racketeer (Ricardo Cortez) to justice by showing that he has not paid his income tax. The T-Man, operating under cover as a newshawk, does so by means of paying court to the racketeer's pretty blonde accountant (Bette Davis), to the popping of corks, headlines and machine guns...
Without this experience, he may never appreciate the excitement that pervades a fan at the inviolability of Warner Oland's person. He may never understand the smug smiles which accompany the first three or four attempts on the detective's life. He may never grasp the delight at the inevitable final threat, appalling as it always is. For we fans know that Charlie has only covered three or four cities in the world. This time it is Shanghai and a dope ring...