Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...production, entitled "The Wise Man" is under the direction of Charles Hicks, Occ. The lighting and the properties are being supervised by George Lowenstein '28 and Lincoln Robinson '30 respectively. The makeup work is in charge of Frederick Rahr...
...preliminary tournament of the Harvard Chess Club is now going on at the Union, with 21 entrants playing a round-robin series to determine the team's makeup...
Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...Beryl Mills did not like to disappoint her interviewers. And she thinks "all this talk about how vulgar you Americans are," is "silly." She thinks Americans are "perfectly adorable," especially U.S. college girls, even if they do smoke more than Australians and use "ever so much more" makeup. Nevertheless, she was obliged to say no, certainly not; she had not the faintest idea of entering the Atlantic City "struggle" (as the reporters called it) or any other...