Word: flagg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House came Artist James Montgomery Flagg to present Tree-Lover Roosevelt with a gift. It was a poster for the Forest Service, showing Uncle Sam, wearing goatee and something resembling...
With the death of Morse and Rogers, John K. Browne '69 becomes the oldest graduate in years at 93, while Isaac Flagg '64, only three months younger than Browne is the oldest graduate in regard to class. William E. Marsh '62, who never graduated remains the oldest alumnus, having reached...
Next morning Ruby Hart ("Miss Nebraska") announced that she was homesick, sped to Newark airport, flew back to Omaha. That left only 47 beauties to appear that evening in the ballroom of the Steel Pier before a committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed...
...gains sensibility. Author Richard Sherman, adapting in collaboration with Howard Ellis Smith, retained the same care with topical allusion that set his story above the average standard in the Saturday Evening Post. Excellent are the carefully dated gowns, furniture, and cliches ("You're the Berries," "Think Fast, Captain Flagg," "They Just Dropped In and Took The Place Over") ; the stock-shots of outstanding news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even the mental attitudes of the periods dealt with. Carpers will find a few inaccuracies: "This is the Voice of Experience...
Dolores Costello modeled for James Montgomery Flagg at 16, did a turn in George White's Scandals at 19, was screen-tested, hired by Warner Bros. At 21, she was already a star in her own right when she played, in The Sea Beast with John Barrymore. After one more picture together. When a Man Loves, they were married. Dolores went to live in the Barrymore mansion, Bella Vista, on a bleak crest over Beverly Hills, taking her place among the Barrymore trophies of field & stream, the Barrymore whimsicalities and the Barrymore dinosaur egg obtained from Roy Chapman Andrews...