Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the country in an effort to intercept it. To tall Arthur Treacher, playing the part of a saturnine and formidable English valet, falls Bright Lights' one bright line. "I posted the letter in the box on the corner," says he, "the one of a sickly green color...
...Farmer Takes a Wife (Fox). If cinema producers ever learn to use color without giving the impression that they consider it a Holly wood invention this is the sort of picture which it will most notably enhance. However, even in black & white, The Farmer Takes a Wife is easily an improvement, in scope and movement, upon the play, based on Walter D. Edmond's novel Rome Hani, from which Edwin Burke derived it. Essentially, it is less a story than the portrait of a place and a period-the Erie Canal, a quarter of a century after...
...Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in pressing the invitation were Grand Commissioner of Athletics John Thomas Rhine, Washington's leading Negro undertaker; Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight Roy Solomon Bond, Maryland's most famed Negro lawyer, who claims to have won more divorce cases than any lawyer of any color in his State; Brigadier General of the Antlered Guards of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Delaware Arthur Newman, onetime A. E. F. infantry captain, now a major in the Military Education Department of Washington's Negro schools...
...this picture than of any other single painting are to be found in U. S. homes. Yet for nearly 50 years the zealous town selectmen have rigidly refused all requests to photograph it. Once 20 years ago, when this prohibition was briefly lifted, the selectmen who allowed new color plates to be made were defeated at the next election. It was therefore news indeed last week when the selectmen of Marblehead met and voted to allow Forbes Lithograph Co. of Everett, Mass, to make four-color process plates for a Lynn lamp company's advertising campaign...
Results were excellent. Lawrence found he could draw fine lines by holding the gun close to the composition board, get mass effects by using a wide, long-distance spray, achieve shadings by spraying one color over another. His specialties are mist, clouds and transparent effects. For difficult objects such as ships he uses stencils to draw the outlines; faces, houses, bridges, trees he sprays offhand. Top price for a Lawrence so far: $25. Last week the Pontiac publicity department took up Duco Artist Lawrence, as a well-turned favor to the du Ponts who make Duco and own almost...