Word: clare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt cover picture was produced by the Finlay color process, in commercial use since 1929, named for Clare Finlay, a London color photography pioneer. O. J. Jordan of Washington, D. C. who made the TIME photograph, explains that the Finlay process renders color photography almost as simple as ordinary black & white photography. The Roosevelt picture was taken with Photo flash bulbs for lighting, with an exposure of about 1/50 sec. The colors were recorded on one special sensitized plate, placed behind a taking screen made up of hundreds of thousands of infinitesimal tri-color (red, green, blue-violet) filters which...
...Manhattan. William J. Clare, 51, was arrested on a charge of petit larceny for stealing baby carriages...
...Making an Etching-Levon West ($2.50). Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts-Clare Leighton...
...Successful Calamity (Warner Bros.), cinematized for George Arliss, is neatly based on Clare Kummer's demoded "situation'' play of misunderstandings, tricks, plots and counterplots. George Arliss is a famed Wall Street broker, important enough to be congratulated by the President of the U. S. (shown anonymously from behind). Lonely for his wife (Mary Astor), son and daughter, he learns from his butler (Grant Mitchell) that ''the poor don't get to go much." He interrupts his family's frivolings with polo and pianists by pretending that he is ruined. They stay home with him and have a lovely time...
...ended a career that might have been dictated by E. Phillips Oppenheim. New York first saw "Prince Edgar" nearly 40 years ago when he arrived flush with funds and cut a wide swathe through the leg o' mutton-sleeved Society of the period. He married Clare de Cosse Conger, niece of Edwin T. Conger of Ohio, onetime Minister to China. That did not last long. In 1911 Prince Edgar turned up in Vienna, but he talked too much about his relationship to the old Kaiser and was quietly ousted. By this time U. S. newspapers had it quite fixed...