Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From this juncture the camera frequently scans pages from the Centuries. Most favored prophecy: "The young lion will conquer the old one upon the field in a single combat. He will pierce his eye in a golden cage, who will then die a dreadful death." This meant nothing until Henry II died after a joust with the Count of Montgomery. A lance penetrated his golden visor, pierced his eye. That established Nostradamus as a prophet...
...Ziegfeld Girl those charms are seldom out of the camera's eye. They get Sheila Regan (Lana) into a pack of trouble. The Great Ziegfeld himself, who never appears in the picture, started it. Out spotting fresh talent for his new show, he found Sheila running an elevator. When his agent (Edward Everett Horton) arrives to tell her she is to be glorified, she is too stunned to speak. Her truck-driver boy friend (James Stewart) has to supply her address, telephone number. Told when and where to report for rehearsals, Sheila still can't answer. Says...
Birthdays. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, "trying to get my golf score down to my age," his 79th. William Henry Jackson, gimlet-eyed pioneer photographer, still toting a camera, his 98th. Cinemactress Bette Davis, present with Governor Blood of New Hampshire, Governor Willis of Vermont, Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, some 10,000 others, at the world premiere of her latest picture, The Great Lie, in Littleton, N.H., her 33rd...
...Ministry of Labor's new schedule of reserved occupations is giving producers more to worry about. Fear is that after June, reservations will be removed altogether except for those working directly on Ministry and service films. Already there are shortages in skilled trades; make-up men, sound men, camera men, carpenters and plasterers are scarcer than hen's teeth. Even wigs are a problem, since the hair lace that forms their base was imported from the beleaguered Balkans...
...Simon, oversized son of a Jewish butter-&-egg salesman, was no more worthy a challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...