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...distance from the camera. A built-in scene recorder would eliminate the slovenly "slating" process-photographing the number of each scene, whacking two boards together to mark the end and beginning of the sound track. It would operate as quietly as a snowy night. Gone would be the cumbersome, crate-like "blimp" which covers the camera to keep its purring from drowning out actors' voices. The first version was tried on Shirley Temple from time to time, then hauled back for alterations and improve ments. Last Spring it did the complete photographic job on Shirley's Young People...
...deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring...
...that requires 145,000 seasonal workers in one month. Relatively few are the wandering Joads hired from the highway: to ship its 24,000 carloads of lettuce. Salinas pays some $78,000 in wages for car-loaders, $73,500 to the lidders who clamp lids on some 7,000.000 crates, $36,000 to the men who ice the refrigerator cars, from 60? to 80? an hour for packers, trimmers, ice men, truckers, paper folders, crate icers, crate liners, labelers...
...Francisco has not yet heard from most of its European exhibitors. But Italy, War II's No. 1 neutral, obviously expects to fence-sit for at least another month. Already in the U. S. are the Italian experts who will re-crate the group of Renaissance masterpieces Italy sent to the Golden Gate, escort it back across the Atlantic...
Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...