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Burnet Hershey
Burnet Hershey (13 December 1896 – 13 December 1971) was a war correspondent and writer of plays, screenplays, and books including accounts based on his experiences during the World War I and World War II eras. His work includes screenplays and an article on the munitions trade that was adapted to film. He was born in Romania and came to the United States with his parents Josef Hirsh Bertha née Bughici Hirsh in 1899. He went to public schools in New York City and Columbia University School of Journalism. He had a brother Abraham and two sisters, Epvira and Elizabeth. He reported for the ''New York Evening Post'' before and during World War I and for ''The New York Sun''. He also reported abroad during World War II. He was a member of the Overseas Press Club, The Silurians, and The Lambs. Columbia University has some of his manuscripts. Bibliography *''The Odyssey of Henry Ford and The Great Peace Ship'' (1967) based on his experience aboard the ship *"Dealers in Death", ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia University School Of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism schools in the world and the only journalism school in the Ivy League. It offers four graduate degree programs. The school shares facilities with the Pulitzer Prizes. It directly administers several other prizes, including the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, honoring excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service. It co-sponsors the National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, and publishes the ''Columbia Journalism Review''. In addition to offering professional development programs, fellowships and workshops, the school is home to the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Admission to the school is highly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleasure Island (1933 Film)
Pleasure Island may refer to : Amusement parks * Pleasure Island (Walt Disney World), in Orlando, Florida * Pleasure Island (Massachusetts amusement park) (closed 1969) * Pleasure Island (Muskegon, Michigan water park) (closed 1991) * Pleasure Island Family Theme Park, in North East Lincolnshire, England (closed 2016) * Pleasure Island, Liverpool (closed 1997) Geography * Pleasure Island (North Carolina), a barrier island near the mouth of the Cape Fear River * Pleasure Island (Maryland), an island in Baltimore County * Pleasure Island (Texas), an artificial island in Sabine Lake Other uses * Pleasure Island (1933 film), directed by Roy Mack * Pleasure Island (''Pinocchio'') See also * ''The Girls of Pleasure Island'' * Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Information (1939 Film)
''Inside Information'' is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Charles Lamont. The film stars Dick Foran, Harry Carey, and June Lang. It was released on June 2, 1939. During production, the working title of the film was ''Metropolitan Police''. Cast * Dick Foran as Danny Blake * Harry Carey as Captain Bill Dugan * June Lang as Kathleen Burke * Mary Carlisle as Crystal * Addison Richards as Banford, aka Max Stockton * Joe Sawyer as Grazzi * Grant Richards as Charles Bixby * Selmer Jackson as Huxley * Paul McVey as Crawford * Frederick Burton as Commissioner Fenton Production In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with Crime Club, who were published of whodunnits. Over the next few years Universal released several mystery films in the series. The film was developed under the title ''Metropolitan Police''. ''Inside Information'' was based on an unpublished novel "47th Precinct" by Burnet Hershey and Martin Mooney. Mooney was a real-life New York City crime reporter who we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Exposure (1936 Film)
Double exposure is a photographic technique in which two images are captured and combined into a single image. Double exposure may also refer to: Film * ''Double Exposures'' (1937 film), directed by John Paddy Carstairs * ''Double Exposure'' (1944 film), directed by William Berke * ''Double Exposure'' (1954 film), directed by John Gilling * ''Double Exposure'' (1976 film), starring Anouska Hempel * ''Double Exposure'' (1982 film), directed by William Byron Hillman * ''Double Exposure'' (1994 film), starring Ron Perlman * ''Double Exposure'' (2014 film), directed by Li Jinhang Television and radio * ''Double Exposure'' (comedy series), a Canadian radio and TV show * ''Double Exposure'' (U.S. TV series), a reality television series aired on Bravo * ''Double Exposure'' (game show), a Heatter-Quigley Productions game show which aired in 1961 * "Double Exposure", an episode from the third season of ''Columbo'' Music * ''Double Exposure'' (Nat Adderley album) * ''Double Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Devils (film)
''Speed Devils'' is a 1935 American film directed by Joseph Henabery, coproduced by Perfect Circle Piston Company and Warner Brothers, and released by Warner Brothers. The film is also known as ''Thru Traffic''. Cast * Paul Kelly as Martin Gray *Marguerite Churchill as Pat Corey *Russell Hardie as Dan Holden * Leo Curley * Walter Fenner *Earl Mitchell Earl Mitchell (born September 25, 1987) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona. College career Mitchell attended the U ... External links * * 1935 films 1935 drama films American auto racing films American drama films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All American Drawback
All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * ''All'' (All album), 1999 * ''All'' (Descendents album) or the title song, 1987 * ''All'' (Horace Silver album) or the title song, 1972 * ''All'' (Yann Tiersen album), 2019 * "All" (song), by Patricia Bredin, representing the UK at Eurovision 1957 * "All (I Ever Want)", a song by Alexander Klaws, 2005 * "All", a song by Collective Soul from ''Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid'', 1994 Science and mathematics * ALL (complexity), the class of all decision problems in computability and complexity theory * Acute lymphoblastic leukemia * Anterolateral ligament Sports * American Lacrosse League * Arena Lacrosse League, Canada * Australian Lacrosse League Other uses * All, Missouri, a community in the United States * All, a brand of Sun Products * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubbling Over (film)
''Bubbling Over'' is a 1934 American musical comedy short film directed by Leigh Jason. The film includes various negative stereotypes. It is extant. Plot Samson Peabody is the janitor in an apartment building where he and his wife Ethel live with a large crowd of Samson's freeloading relatives. When more relatives come to stay, Ethel throws them out. A scheming occupant of the building reads Samson's mail and poses as a clairvoyant predicting the events of the letter; the arrival of Samson's rich Uncle for dinner. However, the Uncle is a penniless lunatic (imagining himself to be The Emperor Jones) and a pickpocket. He steals the chicken dinner, several watches of the guests, the clairvoyant's crystal ball, and (in the final scene) all the clothes of the people in the room. Cast *Ethel Waters Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry The Ache
''Henry the Ache'' is a black-and-white short film burlesque of the 1933 film ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' starring Bert Lahr and Shemp Howard. The comedy was filmed at Van Beuren Studios and released by RKO Radio Pictures on January 26, 1934. Cast *Bert Lahr ... King Henry VIII * Janet Reade ... Catherine Howard *Monte Collins ... Thomas Culpeper *Shemp Howard ... Artie *Leni Stengel ... Anne of Cleves * The Girlfriend Trio ... Ladies in Waiting External links * ''Henry the Ache''athreestooges.net 1934 films American black-and-white films Films directed by Ray McCarey RKO Pictures short films 1934 comedy films Films about capital punishment Films set in Tudor England Films about Henry VIII American parody films American satirical films American slapstick comedy films 1930s American films {{short-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Million Dollar Melody
One million (1,000,000), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian ''millione'' (''milione'' in modern Italian), from ''mille'', "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix ''-one''. It is commonly abbreviated in British English as m (not to be confused with the metric prefix "m", ''milli'', for ), M, MM ("thousand thousands", from Latin "Mille"; not to be confused with the Roman numeral = 2,000), mm (not to be confused with millimetre), or mn in financial contexts. In scientific notation, it is written as or 106. Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega (M), when dealing with SI units; for example, 1 megawatt (1 MW) equals 1,000,000 watts. The meaning of the word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems. The million is sometimes used in the English la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Evening Post
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com. It was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century under the name ''New York Evening Post''. Its most famous 19th-century editor was William Cullen Bryant. In the mid-20th century, the paper was owned by Dorothy Schiff, a devoted liberal, who developed its tabloid format. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the ''Post'' for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, the ''Post'' has been owned by Murdoch's News Corp. Its distribution ranked 4th in the US in 2019. History 19th century The ''Post'' was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 () from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the ''New-York Evening Post'', a broadsheet. Hamilton's co-investors included other New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Goes Double
''That'' is an English language word used for several grammatical purposes. These include use as an adjective, conjunction, pronoun, adverb, and intensifier; it has distance from the speaker, as opposed to words like ''this''. The word did not originally exist in Old English, and its concept was represented by '. Once it came into being, it was spelt as (among others, such as ''þet''), taking the role of the modern ''that''. It also took on the role of the modern word ''what'', though this has since changed, and ''that'' has recently replaced some usage of the modern ''which''. Pronunciation of the word varies according to its role within a sentence, with two main varieties (a strong and a weak form), though there are also regional differences, such as where the sound is substituted instead by a in English spoken in Cameroon. Modern usage The word ''that'' serves several grammatical purposes. Owing to its wide versatility in usage, the writer Joseph Addison named it "that jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea Ghost
''The Sea Ghost'' is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by William Nigh and starring Alan Hale, Clarence Wilson, Claud Allister and Laura La Plante. The film was retitled ''U 67'' for its American reissue, stating in the foreword that "some of the scenes in this film show authentic exploits of the U 67 under actual wartime conditions". Plot Navy Lieutenant Greg Winters (Alan Hale) is found guilty by a court-martial for pausing briefly to prepare to rescue survivors of the ''Alatania'', a torpedoed ship, rather than attacking immediately the submarine responsible. As a result, he is sidelined for the rest of World War I. In 1925 New Orleans, lawyer Henry Sykes (Clarence Wilson) hires now civilian Captain Winters for a salvage job on behalf of Evelyn Inchcape (Laura La Plante). Sykes insists on using his own deep sea diver to retrieve something from none other than the ''Alatania''. After a box is brought up, Winters confronts the diver, who turns out to be Karl Ludwig, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
