Word: celluloid
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...comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred Allen were immortalizing their radio feud on celluloid at the Paramount...
JUST REACHED P. 50 MAY 20 TIME. ALL WORLD INCLUDING NATIONAL PLASTICS AUTHORITY DR. G. KLINE. NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS. KNOWS THAT JOHN WESLEY HYATT FOUNDED PLASTICS INDUSTRY WHEN HE ESTABLISHED CELLULOID CORP.. COMPANY WHICH WAS FIRST TO PERFECT CELLULOSE ACETATE PLASTIC WHICH THEY CALLED LUMAR-ITH. REFER YOU TO DR. KLINE'S REVIEW OF PLASTICS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, P. 198, MAY 1940, SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS JOURNAL...
HARRIET E. RAYMOND Celluloid Corp. New York City ; True, John Hyatt pioneered plastics with the invention of Celluloid in 1868 (he was after a $10,000 prize for a synthetic billiard ball). But not until Dr. Baekeland invented non-inflammable synthetic resin did the modern plastics industry come into...
...aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert." On foreign policy he has been no less articulate. Once, when England was in mild disfavor, he clarioned: "Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" Later, when Britain was temporarily being courted, "The English," he stated, "are a wonderful nation...
...crooked stick, singing We A' Go Hame the Same Way, The Wee Hoose 'mang the Heather. Last week, No. 35 of World War II, Sir Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price." On celluloid, Sir Harry in his first talking picture, a weak-kneed melodrama, played the trouping grandfather of a motherless baby. Grandfather spends most of his time and money keeping the child away from its no-good father...