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...opens the door of a room which contains a criminal lunatic who tries to cut off Melvyn Douglas's head with a carving knife. Good shot: the criminal lunatic (Brember Wells) boasting that he knows more arson than anyone else in the world while he prepares to brighten up the old dark house by setting fire to it and its inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...gala occasion the campus is decorated as it is at no other time during the year. A large, well-sculptured statue of ice, generally of some revered son of Dartmouth, stands at a prominent spot on the campus. The fraternities also take great pains to brighten their thresholds with ice and snow sculptures, many of which are electrically illuminated, so that in general a holiday air prevails...

Author: By The Dartmouth, | Title: Discussion Held At Dartmouth in 1910 To Find Way of Keeping Outdoors in Winter Resulted in Skiing Interest | 10/22/1932 | See Source »

Died. Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 76, hymn writer & composer; of a decline begun by his wife's death last year; in Hollywood. Associated with E. O. Excell, William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Sam Jones and Professor J. H. Kurzenknabe in hymn-publishing, he composed "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen will brighten his spirits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/21/1932 | See Source »

...plant of Powers Engraving Co. the group was posed against a yellow cardboard background before a color camera. Four exposures were made, one for each cardinal color, one for the black, upon transparent plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came out red. Next month's cover has been modelled by Tony Sarg, famed marionette maker. It is a figure of Life's symbolic cherub, shouldering a football nearly as big as himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Forms of Life | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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