Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughters assembled at Webber College, Babson Park, Florida. There they will spend the winter, learn to administer estates, specialize in the care of securities, real estate, hope to attain the degree of "B.B."-bachelor of business. Business men who sent their daughters included: Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Statistician, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas J. O'Connor, President of Purity Baking Co., Chicago; Benjamin Ernstein, President of Barnard Phillips & Co., Bankers, New York; C. K. Corbin, Lawyer, Jersey City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace...
Jungle Gods is one more travel picture (this time African and made by a Captain von Hoffman) in which savages display smirking artificialities much like those so constantly practiced by semi-civilized migrates to the cinema lots of Southern California. As they go through the motions of tribal ritual-king-crowning, lion-hunting, getting married, they manage not to fall into the anticipated postures of improper ingratiation. But they are always ready to roll their eyeballs, with evident satisfaction, at the camera man, thus detracting from the illusion that their curious behaviour is entirely unaffected...
...Adams were in court; Mr. Adams battling for $1,250 which he feels Vitaphone owes him as part of a $15,000 salary as musical director. Mr. Adams fed Mary Lewis stimulant in a teacup, so ran the testimony, and her resulting record of the Barcarole (Tales of Hoffman) showed voice strain, was worthless...
Other smaller scholarships were announced by the Corporation at the same time. The Caspar Henry Burton, Jr., scholarship, of $350, was awarded to W. M. V. Hoffman, Jr., of New York City. Hoffman received a War Degree from the University in 1920, and has attended the Law School for three years. He will now enroll in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Louis, every year the Municipal Theatre Association presents twelve weeks of outdoor opera. This year there were record-breaking receipts despite the most wretched weather conditions encountered since 1919. Total attendance was over a half million. The repertory consisted of one opera (Tales of Hoffman) often included in the New York Metropolitan repertory and the following light operas: Robin Hood, Princess Pat, Sari, Song of the Flame, Red Mill, Rose Marie, The Mikado, The Dollar Princess, Katinka...