Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That color will not come into its own until producers can forget about it has been the chief lesson of every colored film to date. Selznick International may well be the first company to become familiar enough with this medium to treat it with proper carelessness. Unhurried by such outside spurs as the change in theatre equipment that transformed sound overnight from a pipe dream to a necessity, other producers are still wary of color as an expensive and perhaps unhealthy precedent. Selznick International, after a board meeting in which Backer John Hay ("Jock") Whitney was re-elected chairman, Producer...
Declared the New Zionists: "The fact that 80 Jews were murdered and hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Jewish property destroyed under a British Administration should not be allowed to pass quietly. . . . British quarters have announced the stoppage of the strike through the medium of a declaration by General Dill in command of the troops in Palestine. The terms of this declaration are probably without precedent in British history. In fact they concede to the Arabs belligerent rights accorded to each other only by sovereign states at war with each other. General Dill has actually conceded to the Arabs...
...free of charge." There is also something about the little British roadbug at the humorous other extreme from Rolls-Royce, the Baby Austin. And on sale in Manhattan last week, after five years of successful manufacture by the German firm of Mercédès-Benz, was a medium-sized car in which the most advanced European features of construction have been merged: tube frame, engine at the rear, independent springing of all four wheels...
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...
...more than $8,500 (not more than $2,000 down) they wanted a game room, laundry, vegetable cellar and automatic heating in the basement. Garages were considered standard equipment and a porch was rated high. On the first floor they wanted a den, kitchen, large living room, medium-sized dining room, lavatory. On the second they wanted two double bedrooms, one single, two baths, six closets. Insufficient closet space ranked first as pet peeve against present housing, insufficient electric outlets second. Most desired feature: a fireplace. Most original desire: an aviary...