John Kilpatrick
John Reed Kilpatrick (June 15, 1889 – May 7, 1960) was an American athlete, soldier, and sports businessperson.
He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.
Kilpatrick was born to a Canadian mother and American father, raised in New York City, and later attended Yale University.
He competed in football and track and field, and was recognized as one of the top players of the era.
After college, he worked in New York City before being drafted to serve in the United States Army in World War I.
During this service, he won several honors including the Distinguished Service Medal.
After the war, he commenced a successful business career in New York that led him to becoming the president of the Madison Square Garden Corporation.
Kilpatrick ran Madison Square Garden for more than twenty-five years, personally overseeing the operations of the New York Rangers NHL club from 1935 to 1960.
The Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1940 while he was in charge.
Kilpatrick introduced a number of other professional events at Madison Square Garden, such as ice shows and, with the assistance of Ned Irish, college and professional basketball player.
In 1936, he was elected an NHL Governor.
In June 1942, Kilpatrick was recalled to active military duty to serve in World War II and was promoted to brigadier general.
He retired from the army in 1949 and resumed his career at Madison Square Garden.
Kilpatrick continued to make contributions to the sport of ice hockey, including establishing the National Hockey League Pension Society in 1947.
Posthumously, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960, and in 1968, he received the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States.
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Fred Severud
Fred Severud( June 8, 1899- June 11, 1990) was a Norwegian born, American structural engineer.
His projects included the St. Louis Gateway Arch, Seagram Building and Madison Square Garden ..
East Is East (1999 film)
East Is East is a 1999 British comedy- drama film written by Ayub Khan- Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell.
It is set in Salford, Lancashire,( now in Greater Manchester), in 1971, in a mixed- ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George( Om Puri) and an English mother, Ella( Linda Bassett).
" East Is East" is based on the play" East is East" by Ayub Khan- Din, which opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in October 1996 and Royal Court Theatre in November 1996.
The title derives from the Rudyard Kipling poem" The Ballad of East and West", of which the opening line reads:" Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet".
Harry Joe Brown
Harry Joe Brown (September 22, 1890 – April 28, 1972) was an American film producer, and earlier a theatre and film director.
A. R. Harwood
Alexander Roy Harwood( 1897–1980), better known as A. R. Harwood, or Dick Harwood, was an Australian film director and producer who also worked in exhibition.
He was inspired to become a filmmaker when he was posted to Tahiti to work for an insurance company and watched the shooting of" Never the Twain Shall Meet"( 1925).
He returned to Australia and produced and directed" The Man Who Forgot"( 1927).
Harwood went on to make a number of feature films over the next twenty years.
Film historians Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper said of him that" what Harwood lacked in talent as a director, he made up for in perseverance, usually in the face of formidable shortages of finance and equipment."
He also worked as an insurance broker, real estate agent, theatre manager and chief executive for the Miss Australia Quest.
Harwood was married with one daughter.
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925 film)
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1925 American silent South Seas drama film based on the book by Peter B. Kyne, produced by MGM and directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Anita Stewart and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited bit part.
It was remade as talking picture in 1931 at MGM by director W. S. Van Dyke.
This is one of Tourneur's many lost and sought after films.
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 drama film produced and distributed by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro.
It is based on the book by Peter B. Kyne.
The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea adventures" The Pagan" and" White Shadows in the South Seas".
The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name.
E. Michael Burke
Edmund Michael Burke (August 6, 1916 – February 5, 1987) was a U.S. Navy Officer, O.S.S. agent, C.I.A. agent, general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, CBS executive, President of the New York Yankees, the New York Knicks, and Madison Square Garden.
Madison Square Garden (film)
Madison Square Garden is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by Thomson Burtis, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson.
The film stars Jack Oakie, Thomas Meighan, Marian Nixon, William Collier, Sr., ZaSu Pitts, Lew Cody and William" Stage" Boyd.
The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures.
Actual boxers like Jack Johnson, Billy Papke and Tom Sharkey and actual sports journalists like Paul Gallico, Grantland Rice and Damon Runyon appear in the story as themselves.

Question: Are the directors of both films Never The Twain Shall Meet (1925 Film) and Madison Square Garden (Film) from the same country?
Answer: no