Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four svelte, attractive ladies and a schoolgirl were grouped in a two-page water color by Artist Carl Ericsson in last week's issue of Vogue. Most Vogue readers saw what they were supposed to see: that each of the anonymous ladies was wearing a smart hat which specially befitted her age. A few observers noted something else: some of the faces looked familiar...
Most striking is the life-like perspective of the group. The pie looks really edible. The doll's hands look as if they could be grasped. Reason for this is that the design was not a painting but a color photograph of the objects, an innovation in magazine cover work...
...late 30's. At work he wears rubber knee boots and a huge straw hat. He has found that the goldfish business booms with Depression because goldfish are a cheap form of amusement. He is now experimenting with diets to determine how much influence feeding has on the color and marking of the fish. Next winter he will go to Japan to seek new and strange varieties of goldfish for U. S. bowls...
...eight, Graphic and Illustrated London News were best known in the U. S. Both were distinguished by fine color plates, striking photographs of world news events, superbly printed. It was the alert, somewhat sensational Graphic that introduced to the English-speaking Press Dr. Erich Salomon and his "Candid Camera." The Graphic devoted less attention than the Illustrated London News to archaeology, Egyptology; more to unique photography. Also it combed the world's Press for items characteristic of national foibles, reprinted them with little or no comment as the American Mercury presents its "Americana...
...gets the bullet. All the husbands are suspected. So are a maid, her husband who liked Landini, a jeune fille whose scarf was around Landini's neck, an old Chinese servant who speaks rudely. A peculiar circumstance : on two cigaret boxes of identical shape but different color, the covers have been inter changed...