Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Markham-Skipworth, 57, is Hollywood's most reliable grande dame or "high class wicked woman." At 20 she was the wife of artist Frank Markham-Skipworth and starving in London. "To keep from starving" she took a part as understudy to Marie Tempest in The Artist's Model, nine months later was playing the lead in Manhattan. She once paid Douglas Fairbanks Sr. $40 a week as a juvenile. She has owned a chicken farm on Long Island for 28 years, will some day retire...
American Tobacco Co. recalls no actual model for Bull Durham. The U. S. map on his side was purely accidental. When noticed it was touched up to be more apparent...
...once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter. In a desperate attempt to dissuade him, Slag attacks his ward, wins his point by taking one more licking. Good shot: Slag, inarticulate when called upon...
...born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated fresh air and getting up before noon, he plays all games, though poorly...
...Department of Agriculture, whose agents have learned the educational value of mechanical models,* has a fly 4,000 times the size of the ordinary fly which gets into the kitchen. The colossal insect pokes its proboscis into a heap of "sugar," flaps its wings fearsomely. Blind children have vague ideas about house flies. They feel flies crawling on them, hear their elders talk about fly nuisance. To let blind children know just what a fly looks like the American Foundation for the Blind† has just had built a big fly model. All the contours, joints, vibrissa, hairs and feelers...