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...function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions† helped make Color Flight an intensely exhilarating work of cinemart. It was made entirely by Len Lye himself, took nine weeks of work, cost...
...infancy, that Silly Symphonies are preludes to Serious Symphonies which will employ all the resources of painting wedded to music and cinemaction. The obstacle that many of them bleat about: no film company will back anything but popular entertainment. Last week in London an original artist named Len Lye, working on a shoestring, crashed through with an animated movie called Color Flight which previewers hailed as art, as entertainment, and as the freshest stuff of its kind since Disney arrived...
Andrew was tall, bony, large-faced, the son of a hot-tempered West Virginia landowner, born into what the neighbors said was the "preachingest family in Greenbrier County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along...
...With sandpaper." The mistier background of the "home front," where "unaccustomed to apply the standards of reality to the speeches of their masters, and demand a reckoning for squandered blood and wasted years, [people] toiled in the factories, fields, and cities, sent their children to be soldiers, washed with lye-soap and paper towels, travelled in unheated railway carriages, froze in chilly houses, sunned themselves in future glories and reports of victories they never presumed to question, mourned their dead, and were patiently ridden to destruction...
Soap. Thoroughgoing in most White House economies, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge failed to perform one of the oldest and simplest housewifely tasks. Had she liked, she might have gone into the kitchen, selected a few goodly-sized pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...