Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carelessness. Unhurried by such outside spurs as the change in theatre equipment that transformed sound overnight from a pipe dream to a necessity, other producers are still wary of color as an expensive and perhaps unhealthy precedent. Selznick International, after a board meeting in which Backer John Hay ("Jock") Whitney was re-elected chairman, Producer Selznick re-elected president, last week announced an expansion in its current program. It will make twelve features instead of five in 1937. Six of the twelve will be in Technicolor, in which Backer Whitney has a major interest. This will be about one-third...
...history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall (commercial aluminum), Elias Howe (sewing machine), Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper), Ottmar Mergenthaler (linotype), Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Westinghouse, Wilbur Wright, Eli Whitney...
...full justice to the character, the part of Sir Tremendous will be taken by a prominent member of the Faculty, Andre Morize, professor of French Literature. Edward A. Whitney '17, associate professor of History and Literature, and Huntington Brown '22, instructor of English, are directing the production...
...president of Manufacturers Trust Co. To provide for planning and construction during the next two years, an issue of $27,829,000 in debentures will be offered by the World's Fair Corporation to businessmen-investors. To act as chief salesman for this offering Mr. Gibson named Richard Whitney, Depression president of the New York Stock Exchange...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...