Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor role. The new technicolor production's efforts are centered on the operatic background and on a cleverly handled romance, rather than depending on sheer horror to draw, the flocks to the box-office. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable picture, thanks to well proportioned bits of music, color, comedy, horror, and yes, even romance...
Paris operas, with their over lavish settings, are ideal meat for the color camera and although Nelson Eddy never was too appealing as an actor, he can roll that bartone of his. Claude Rains, of "Casablanca" fame, portrays the third violinist, and incidentally, the masked phantom. Eddy and the gondrame officer, Edward Barrier, put on a rather amusing and seemingly original Alphonse and Gaston performance at the mere presence of the budding opera star, Susanna Foster...
Born in Dover, Ohio, Papsdorf has al ways lived in Ohio or Michigan. His German-born ex-missionary father sent him to grade schools, kept a sharp eye on his son's pastimes. Fred Papsdorf made his own beginner's colors out of stray tinted chalk mixed with linseed oil, later ordered10? tubes of mail-order paint (pictures made with these paints, he says, have held correct color values through the years...
...Henry Ford, man of one main idea, has always believed that automobiles are merely means of transportation. They should be mass-produced cheaply, without eye-catching gewgaws, and sold cheaply. He has little regard for the public's fickle taste and fashions. Once he said: "Give them any color they want as long as it's black." Stubbornly sticking to these ideas, he continued to turn out his Model T until it was hopelessly obsolete. Up-&-coming Chevrolet-and the modernizing influence of his late son Edsel-forced him to junk Model T in 1927. By then...
...leaf-green he opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum, and one finger touched at the feather, emerald green, blowing in the spring winds...