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Moon-faced, round-eyed, George Cukor looks like Producer David Selznick in a convex mirror. Irritated by jokes about the resemblance, he recently reduced 40 lb. in 25 weeks. Pictures full of lavender emotion are his specialty. He made Little Women and A Bill of Divorcement for RKO. He dresses to match in blue ensembles, starched linen trousers in shades of mauve and cerise. An excellent craftsman, temperamental to the point of hysterics, he fumes and fusses for perfection. His next picture will be David Copperfield...
...each of the outboard motors of a tri-motor plane is mounted a convex mirror permitting the pilot to see the whirling propeller of the centre engine, through the blades of the outboard propeller. If the centre "prop" seems to rotate in one direction or the other, the pilot knows that it is whirling faster or slower than the outboard. He manipulates his throttles until the centre "prop" seems to stand stockstill. When both outboards have been tuned with the centre, the "waah-waah" ceases...
...Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta has succeeded in arousing Mr. Leverton's interest (he is a wealthy theatrical man), Stocky barges into...
...monolith of black granite with the word LENIN inlaid in letters of red porphyry. Inside the doors, a giant hammer and sickle, carved in stone. Embalmed Lenin lies in an underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited for a perfect design for Lenin...
...turn with full-blood aurochs, giving three-quarter blood animals. Through successive generations the temporary American bison strain could be practically bred out, its virility merely tiding over the true Europeans. Like American bison, the aurochs has long legs, massive shoulders covered in winter with shaggy dark-brown hair, convex forehead. Both species make fine rugs, steaks...