Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barn hung over the speakers' platform : JERSEY CITY 100% AMERICAN. REDS KEEP OUT. After an interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned woman sang it. Then the lesser speakers began to warm...
Greeks last week painted a wheezing steam locomotive pure white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some...
...hysterical; it is very funny, and that is all. It is not a satire. Satire is carrying a thing ad absurdum, and New York will go and absurdum of its own free will. And while we are bucking the nation's critics we might add that the color is not nearly so bad as they...
...Nothing Sacred" was produced by Selznic International, which is vaguely affiliated with United Artists. David O. Selznic happens to be in the good graces of John Hay Whitney, who owns the Technlcolor process, the best color process developed commericially to date. Last year he produced "A Star is Born," with all those frightful orange and blue sunsets. After much experimenting, for which his color director, William A. Wellman, deserves great credit, he has produced in "Nothing Sacred" the most true-to-life film yet to appear. When Miss Lombard is draged out of the East River, she looks wet. When...
...lips pierced with pins, kosher beef being slaughtered, a bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...