Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that sum a purchaser had his choice of such particular bargains as two fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
...them, Charles Franklin Kettering, already famed as General Motors' research vice president; the other so little known even in his home city that, when Detroit newspapers got word of the Franklin awards, they could find no mention of him in their morgues. This was Albert Leroy Marsh, president of Detroit's Hoskins Manufacturing Co., who won the John Price Wetherill Medal "for discoveries or inventions in the physical sciences or for new and important combinations of principles or methods already known," as a result of work which had set him on the road to fortune, if not fame...
Born in Pontiac, Ill., 58 years ago, Metalman Marsh began fiddling with chemistry in a woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace...
...clean, well-fattened woman in an old-rose dressing gown sitting up to a cold fireplace (see cut) ; Fay Read ing, a blonde girl in a slip with High Tide of the Flesh on her knee; Sleeping Girl, another blonde superbly relaxed. Such fleshiness caused lusty Painter Reginald Marsh to exult in the exhibition's catalog: "Everywhere in these paintings is luxury. There is wit and a fine, fat magnificence. . . . Miss Duller has painted this clean, opulent world with a terrible power...
Ruth Chatterton, who has been making pictures since who knows when, is starred in "Lady of Secrets", a rather incredible but touching movie. She is really not Joan's (Marian Marsh) sister but her mother, and that gag has been pulled a little too often for a gag that wasn't too good in the first place. However, her romance with the unjustly treated war-victim Michael (Lloyd Nolan) and her patching-up of her sister-daughter's love affair in the face of cruel father Lionel Atwill are interesting. Otto Kruger plays a wealthy anthropologist and sportsman convincingly...