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...University team at $100 a week for his first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road. He was whipped through every department of the Pennsylvania to get a background which would enable him to teach and train employes. In 1911 he was given the task of rehabilitating the Long Island Railroad. With this experience, he left in 1914 for England. He carried two suitcases when he sailed, one filled with clothes, the other with reports of England's Great...
...Evans, the husband. Ralph Morgan has kept his stage part of "dear old Charlie" Marsden, the epicene friend. May Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly of a plate-glass screen blasted with flour...
...Park Avenue Hospital where died Actress Jeanne Eagels of an overdose of heroin and rich young William E. Swift of Chicago by suicide (TIME, June 9, Sept. 1, 1930). The Episcopal Church was represented by the conservative vestry of St. Mark's, and somewhere in the background by New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning. Midway between was Dr. William Norman Guthrie, tall, handsome, voluble rector of St. Mark's, who ten years ago founded with Dr. Cowles at St. Mark's a non-sectarian "Body & Soul Medical & Mental Clinic...
...article announced a new modern dance department in the Cleveland Institute of Music, under the direction of Modernists Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Recommended to housewives, stenographers et al., it advertised that long, hard work and a musical background are not necessary; "all you need is a body...
...current cycle of political pictures. This one gives Lionel Barrymore a spacious and declamatory role, the sort that suits him best. It is not to be confused with Washington Merry-Go-Round, which Columbia will presently release, although it contains a shot of a carrousel against the background of the Capitol. It is an adaptation by John Meehan and Samuel Blythe of Author Henri Bernstein's play The Claw. To give the plot pertinence in a presidential year, the scene is Washington instead of Paris, but Lionel Barrymore's role is the one he had in the play...