Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeMille picture without a battle scene would be as deficient as one without a bathtub. In Cleopatra, the bath in which Roman senators are shown scraping their elbows with strigils while plotting to kill Caesar is the biggest that has ever appeared in a DeMille picture, but the battle scene fails to set any record. This is because Antony's officers have deserted him and he has nothing left but a few re- painted chariots and a regiment or two of Egyptians. When these have been hacked, speared and ground to death under an enormous spiked wheel, Antony is left...
...important pictures have contained bathing facilities ranging from a bathtub with gold faucets in Why Change Your Wife to the pool in Cleopatra which covers an acre and is used for background in one short shot. In The Sign of the Cross, Claudette Colbert went swimming in milk. The fabulous DeMille bathtub is a symbol not of cleanliness but of luxury...
...London, when drought shrank the Thames to a narrow stream, Lady Plimsoll painted a thin green line around the inside of her bathtub, six inches above the bottom. Like the original "Plimsoll line" which her late great father-in-law Samuel Plimsoll devised to mark the depth below which a ship must not be loaded, Lady Plimsoll's line decreed high water mark in her bathtub. By last week all over England, patriots were summoning painters to draw Plimsoll lines on their tubs...
...said it would be doing the honorable thing." Since Mrs. Brownlee appeared to like having the ray of sunshine for a house guest, Miss MacMillan was able to do the honorable thing under the Premier's own roof. She testified that he turned on water in the bathtub to cover the noise, tiptoed into her room and led her back to his, tiptoeing in step with him "so that the footsteps would sound like one person." He also gave her, she said, large black pills...
...Fort Worth, Tex., one W. D. May, mail robber and murderer, marched out of his death cell. Beside him, Rev. Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...