Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soglow sold Publisher Hearst a comic strip called The Ambassador. Last week The Ambassador was recalled to make way for the Little King, who at the same time abdicated from the New Yorker, his contract having expired. In his debut as a Hearstling the Little King romped gaily in color through a page of ten drawings, in which he was depicted as entertaining his assembled subjects with an impromptu performance on a tight rope...
Last week another stamp, not yet issued, from another British crown colony, made philatelic news. Captain the Hon. Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford. Governor of the Bahamas, announced that he intended using an underwater color photograph taken by U. S. Submarine Photographer John Ernest Williamson as decoration for a new airmail stamp. Should The Crown's presses break down when his new stamp was being printed, he might produce one or two stamps which would eventually rival the 1¢ British Guiana's value. But it seemed more likely that the new Bahamian stamps would retain only their nominal value despite...
Such was the largest and the most bitter caricature of the Roosevelt Administration. In bright color but indifferent drawing, it appeared on a 4-by-8-ft. canvas last week in the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts at Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...
...five shows of the 1933-34 season were still running on Broadway. Veterans of the torrid doldrums, two were smut shows for summer visitors (Are You Decent? Sailor, Beware!), one was an uproarious comedy (She Loves Me Not), one was a revue (As Thousands Cheer), one was a local color drama (Tobacco Road...
...Henry Horgan, 80, inventor of the halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...