Word: fane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most featured players he has two "stand-ins"' (understudies) to take his place on the set while lights and props are being ar ranged. He likes baked potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair, a four-post bed in a lacquer white bedroom, a fat contract with Monarch Pictures...
Brief Moment (Columbia) exhibits the difficulties that attend the marriage of an intelligent night club hostess to a wealthy ne'er-do-well. Abby Fane (Carole Lombard) marries Roderick Deane (Gene Raymond) with a very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work...
...piece of the very rock upon which St. Paul, preached was received with pomp and ceremony last week by Cathedral-builder Bishop Manning, who loves to collect relics for his fane. It is a 30-lb. chunk of rose granite...
...rival academies have referred to the Prix de Rome painters as "Little Savages" (TIME, May 19, 1930, May 18, 1931). By this they refer to Yale's Leffingwell Professor of Painting & Design, bristle-lipped Eugene Francis Savage, a muralist best known as the decorator of that amazing fane, the Elks National Memorial in Chicago. Professor Savage is an active member of the Fine Arts committee of the American Academy in Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time to interest them, "Little...
...thing made this year's birthday parade different from all others. For the first time Russians were able to see the fane of Communism, the final, stone tomb of Nikolai Lenin. For years the "Communist saint" rested in a glass case under a truncated pyramid of weathered oak while state architects argued what form the permanent tomb should take...