Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business head most responsible for making this stock worth something was that of Roy Harold Robichaud, a door-to-door circulation solicitor before the Star fell, who was elected president by his associates to head the six-man. Board of Directors which is made up of the paper's department heads. Editor who made the News-Herald well liked by Vancouverites was James Noel ("Pat") Kelly, born on the Isle of Man and a world wanderer until he settled in Vancouver. For world news, he figured correctly that the News-Herald could get along with the half-hour daily...
Inside the front door of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week, oblong slabs of glass painted with black stripes revolved steadily under a six foot pair of red lips painted by Artist Man Ray. In other galleries throughout the building were a black felt head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab...
...place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned down for at least half the picture to a dismal half-whisper that resembles the sound of a fly trying to crash through a screen door. It is not a great sin for such as Laughton and Korda to fail; the evil lies in refusing to admit the failure and claiming for it new heights of cinematic excellence. It must be said in justice to "Rembrandt" that costuming and photography are excellent, as they always...
...long idle books, but soon S--knocks and off with him to a strange place in the Square. Fairly pulled by S--; he has something for me to see. Two long flights of creaky stairs. Down a corridor. A sharp turn to the left, and in a small door, where the most peculiar pile of wood and metal I ever saw. Large box-like things around the room; men working with copper wire at little tables. An air of order and quiet. S--informs me these are the studios of the Harvard Forest. Laughing lightly at my quizzical look...
...Society was formed because of the copyright arrangement of the Museum with the producers and University regulations which forbid the taking of admission at the door. Membership in the Film Society costs $1.00 for students in Harvard and Radcliffe, $2.00 for members of the Faculty and their families, and $3.00 for those not connected with the University. These fees will meet the expenses of procuring the pictures and will entitle each member to a ticket for the five programs and to special privileges in connection with future showings...