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THERE follows as complete a list as could be assembled of the managers' announcements of productions for the coming season.
MONTREAL, Quebec, July 24. -- One of the most important industrial developments in the history of the Dominion -- certainly the most important in recent years -- is expected to be the outcome of the deal recently announced between James B. Duke and the Aluminum Company of America.
" What Price Glory," "Desire Under the Elms," "They Knew What They Wanted" and "Processional" -- these plays, it has been generally agreed and set down in dramatic annals, were the most substantial of the season.
1925Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (died 2000)[†]
Jerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician (Kristdemokrat). His Hebrew name was Chil Josef, after his paternal grandfather.

1925Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (died 2015)[†]
Joseph Frederick Engelberger was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Often regarded as the "Father of Robotics". Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. Later, he worked as entrepreneur and vocal advocate of robotic technology beyond the manufacturing plant in a variety of fields, including service industries, health care, and space exploration.
1925Gene Gutowski, Polish-American film producer (died 2016)[†]
Witold Bardach, better known as Gene Gutowski, was a Polish-American film producer who produced many of Roman Polanski's films, including Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and The Pianist (2002).

1925Ana María Matute, Spanish author and academic (died 2014)[†]
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
1925Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (born 1888)[†]
Antonio Ascari was an Italian Grand Prix motor racing champion. He won four Grands Prix before his premature death at the 1925 French Grand Prix. He was the father of two-time World Champion Alberto Ascari.
1925Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1848)[†]
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Though he was largely ignored during his lifetime, Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), and, to some extent, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) introduced his work to later generations of philosophers. Frege is widely considered to be the greatest logician since Aristotle, and one of the most profound philosophers of mathematics ever.
1925William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (born 1860)[†]
William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He served in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895 and as the Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1915. Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people, Bryan was often called "the Great Commoner", and because of his rhetorical power and early fame as the youngest presidential candidate, "the Boy Orator".