Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath was a Chicago Tribune cartoon of July 1919 showing white bathers at a beach shaking their fists at Negro bathers on the other side of a lifeline. The caption: "The color line has reached the North." Boxed at the right was a reprint of an interview Senator Medill McCormick was supposed to have given to the since defunct Chicago Journal on the race riots...
...Magazine, World's Work. Editor Lucius Clinton Harper readily admits it is patterned after any number of magazines and is intended to be the all-inclusive Negro publication. Black and white contributors alike are solicited, but only two famed authors, no original drawings by famed artists of either color were represented in the first issue. (An article by Clarence Darrow, "John Brown-He Who Struck the First Blow," is scheduled for November.) Besides four stories and eight bits of verse there were 16 special features, among them an "exposé" of U. S. rule in the Virgin Islands...
...staging, scenes, and costumes will all be in black and white, the only spot of color being Lady Windermere's bright red fan. Only once before has a play been put on exclusively in shades, the exception being "The Importance of Being Earnest," which was produced in England...
WHOOPEE?Brilliant color photograph of Ziegfeld girls & Cantor comedy (TIME...
...Connecticut farm and Manhattan. The result is a device whereby he can do his own monitoring. He stands in a soundproof glass box, hears the music through a loud speaker. One hand guides the orchestra, the other the controls. In a first demonstration last week much of the color of a first hand performance was transmitted to Albeniz's Fête-Dieu à Séville, de Falla's Amor Brujo, Debussy's La Cathédrale Engloutie, Ravel's Bolero. Stokowski will broadcast again on Nov. 16 and on Christmas and Easter afternoons...