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...Tsar Will Hays asked the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate Hollywood casting agencies. The investigation showed that: the agencies charged commissions as high as 60%; there were so many of them that aspirants for cinema jobs had a hard time keeping in touch with all; applicants were often cheated, mistreated, or subjected to improper offers. In 1926, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. started the Central Casting Corp. to interview applicants for jobs three days a week, assign welfare workers to minor applicants, charge no commissions. For general manager the corporation chose an unassuming young man named...
...Walter J. Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. New Jersey College for Women (New Brunswick, N.J.) Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . D.F.A Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Dean Luther Allen Weigle of Yale Divinity School . . . . . . . . . S.T.D. Roanoke College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate of Transportation Joseph B. Eastman...
...willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that...
...often does Dallas see a premiere, let alone one by the Sage of Adelphi Terrace, whose U.S. representatives, the Theatre Guild, had sanctioned the performance. Nevertheless, Dallas' critical fraternity rose magnificently to the occasion. Observed Critic John Rosenfield Jr. of the Morning News...
Nicknamed by newspapers "The Sage of Potato Hill," and the "Kansas Diogenes," Ed Howe was not, as such titles suggested, a small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary...