Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Pettingill senses the truth. Although permission to photograph King Leopold III in color had not been granted by the Royal Chancellory even to leading Belgian illustrated magazines, recently His Majesty graciously agreed to sit for a color photograph. TIME'S Photographers Leigh Irwin and Nicholas Langen arrived one morning at the Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting...
...first all-Negro musical Western." It brings to life a cow-country as fabulous as the vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer who learned his art from Mack Sennett...
...edification of dubs and experts alike, the alltime, definitive book on skiing is being published this week. Skiing, the International Sport* contains 21 articles on every phase of skiing by the world's leading authorities. It contains nine reproductions of paintings in full color and 250 photographs. Some of the authors, notably Richard Durrance, Arnold Lunn, Charles Proctor and Birger Ruud, will be skiing in the U. S. this winter...
Educated as a sculptor and painter Jensen reveals his artistic background in all his silver work. His designs are well-balanced and full of rhythm. The color and texture of his works are intended, in his own words, to suggest the "play of moonlight on water...
...that such poisonous chemicals as lead arsenate and sulphur dioxide are widely used to preserve fruits, the former to protect apples from the ravages of insects, and the latter in the drying of certain fruits such as apricots and plums. Meat is also treated chemically to preserve its red color. Many may applaud these modern methods of saving money employed by producers and middlemen, and may marvel at the wonders of modern science, but no one would think of deliberately and knowingly placing these preservative poisons into his digestive system. Nevertheless, this is what is done every day by persons...