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- Actor
Olle Jansson was born on 16 July 1910 in Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor. He died on 10 March 1962.- Walter Butterworth was born on 4 April 1892 in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Kraft Theatre (1947) and The Web (1950). He was married to Margaret Blakeney. He died on 10 March 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- British journalist and novelist Philip Gibbs was born Philip Hamilton Gibbs in London in 1877 (his brothers Cosmo Hamilton and A. Hamilton Gibbs were also writers). In 1896 he was appointed as educational editor at the publishing house of Cassell & Co. After holding a variety of positions in the publishing industry, he got a job as an editor at the Daily Mail newspaper, and shortly afterward went to work for the Daily Express. After that he served as literary editor of the Tribune, and when that paper went out of business he moved to Littlehampton on England's South Coast and wrote a memoir of his days on Fleet Street, entitled "Adventures in Journalism". Though the book was critically acclaimed, a libel suit by a journalist he had worked with damaged the book's reputation, and although the suit was finally settled out of court, the book itself was not a financial success and Gibbs was forced to look for a job to support himself. He secured employment with The Daily Chronicle as a "specfial corespondent", which meant that he covered the more sensational stories of the time, such as gun battles between police and criminal gangs and the pursuit of the infamous killer Dr. Crippen across the Atlantic to America.
When World War I broke out Gibbs went to France to cover the fighting. He became one of only five reporters accredited by the British army. His resulting stories have been hailed as among the best war correspondence ever to have been written. In 1920 he and his four colleagues were made Knights of the Order of the British Empire for their work.
After the war he wrote several books about his experiences during it and traveled the world, investigating conditions in Russia during the infamous 1921 famine and journeying to the US several times, during one of which he managed to obtain an interview with the Pope (an almost unheard-of feat for a reporter). He resigned from the Chronicle in 1921 due to his strong disagreement with the paper's coverage of the Irish troubles. A prolific writer, he wrote several books during World War II about the suffering of the British people and how they remained defiant and refused to give up even during the darkest days of the German bombing campaigns against them.
He died in 1962 in Surrey, England, at age 84. - Producer
- Director
- Production Manager
Ed Sobol was born on 10 April 1889 in the USA. He was a producer and director, known for NBC Television Theatre (1946), The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) and Hour Glass (1946). He died on 10 March 1962 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
The son of a Lutheran minister, Wauer studied at Art Academies in Dresden, Berlin, and Munich, before going to Rome in 1893. He was an art critic and and editor in Dresden, moved to Berlin where he edited the magazine, "Quickboorn." He worked in other publishing ventures in Dresden, then returned to Berlin in 1905, where he began directing plays for Max Reinhardt, later directing at the Hebbel Theater and the Kleines Theater.
In 1911 he began directing and writing films through his own company.
In 1912 his art was exhibited in the famous "Sturm" exhhibition of Herwarth Walden in Berlin, which introduced numerous Expressionist artists to the scene. Working with Walden, he published numerous essays in "Der Sturm," and participate as a leader of the group, becoming in 1924 the chairman of the International Association of Expressionists, Cubists, Futurists, and Konstructivists, as well as the head of the art group "Die Abstrakten." He also gave numerous radio lectures on art between 1928 and 1933.
In the 1920s he also published numerous books on art, but was blacklisted after the Nazis took power in 1933. After World War II he continued his art again, as well as his teaching activities, becoming a member of the Board of the Association of Fine Artists (Verband der bildenden Künstler), and of the Verband der Volkshochschuldozenten (Association of Community College Lecturers). Major exhibitions of his work were organized for his 80th, 85th, 90th, and 95th birthdays.