Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discover that Jim Thomas was one of the best bridge players in town. No after dinner speaker was more in demand because, after the formal speaking was over, Jim Thomas could generally be found in a corner, regaling his friends with a rare collection of off-color stories. Ever since the night when he dined at Buckingham Palace with the buckles of his knee breeches held together with safety pins, he was one of King George V's favorite politicians...
...Resettlement Administration's payroll. By the time Lorentz was ready to begin shooting last September, he had employed a trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger...
...Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain, respectively glorifying the British Post Office and the social effect of water power...
...chases Ballantine and Croft madly down the street. These preliminary races, according to track veterans, may send Con. or Am. Can to record highs on the exchange, as the relative merits of the steeds are discovered. The dark blue of Pabst has not yet proved itself a winning color over the dappled brown of Scotch Ale, and upsets by unknowns may occur momentarily, according to the best advices...
...with satisfying grace. We liked the story; we have for years. A young dancing master (Charles Collins) is shanghaied to California, where he is soon waltzing his way to freedom and young love's triumph with Steffi Duna, the local senorita No. 1. In spite of the riot of color and considerable good dancing, the absence of any musical standouts relegates the film to second class.E...