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...Nine Secretaries. He kept nine secretaries busy, dictating his 3,500 articles, speeches and books, campaigning for repeal of prohibition, against the child-labor amendment, for the League of Nations and the Republican Party. For his plodding conservatism, leftists were apt to regard him as a kind of American Blimp. His memberships and honors took up four times as much space in Who's Who as Franklin Roosevelt's. In 1931, for his work as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Butler shared a Nobel prize with Jane Addams...
...world's) most talented moviemakers, feeling the cold hands of businessmen curbing their artistic impulses, had deserted him for Sir Alexander Korda (TIME, Nov. 17), who is concentrating on prestige films. Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) and Powell & Pressburger (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) had already gone. British critics had begun to note the deterioration in Rank films; recent films, said the Sunday Times, ranged from "mediocre to ghastly...
...extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color in a feature (hand-tinting, in Joan the Woman...
...Columbia undergraduates hired a blimp, flew over the Yale campus and dropped 5,000 leaflets bearing a cocky ultimatum: "Your unfeeling leaders have ordered your young men into combat with the irresistible forces of Columbia. Your leaders . . . promise victories. You know what you get. There is still time for you to retire with honor. Surrender. . . . You will be treated humanely." Two days later, Underdog Yale countered with a more orthodox aerial attack (17 completed passes...
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made the excellent Colonel Blimp, it is surprising how little they get across, here, about human beings. The talk about the strange, compelling atmosphere of the place-a Lost Horizon routine in reverse -is just talk; lovely as some of the Technicolor photographs are, they bring little of the strangeness to the audience's eyes. Although some of the characters change, they change by sudden leaps & bounds, and without sufficient motivation...