Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Press's 100th anniversary.* The Centennial Edition, edited by Malcolm W. Bingay who conducts the paper's daily "Good Morning" column, reviewed the history of the paper, of Detroit and of mankind for the past hundred years. Crowning item was a rotogravure page with a large photograph of Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, pride of the Free Press, and a seven stanza poem written by him for the occasion. First stanza...
...Though reputable artists do not color photographs, as a labor saving device many throw the reflection of a photograph on a blank canvas by means of a magic lantern, block in the rough outline of the sitter's pose with charcoal...
Manager Johnson, henchman of the Chicago opera's President Samuel Insull, said that Mary Garden was severing her 20 years' connection with the Chicago Opera by mutual agreement. Chicagoans had guessed that she was through a fortnight ago when no photograph of her appeared with the other pictures advertising next year's performances. Gossip forthwith spread to the effect that she had been ousted because Mrs. Insull does not like her, has long urged President Insull to end her contract. A year ago, the report went out, Mary Garden said she would not renew her contract...
...welcomes foreign visitors who need no intimidation. With a nice blend of the two expressions II Duce mounted a rostrum in Rome last week to open the International Grain Conference, a meeting attended by delegates of 46 wheat-growing nations. He scowled slightly because he knew that his photograph and his words would be reported in every Italian newspaper. He smiled often, avoided dogmatism, because he realized that 45 of the 46 delegations were not at all afraid of Benito Mussolini. With practically no advance publicity in the U. S. Press, the meeting was far more important...
...American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them. He makes no attempt to interpret the originality of his scene, but is content merely to reproduce. The reproduction, too, suffers from the immense conglomeration of detail and anecdote; in the end there is neither order nor proportion and both author and reader find themselves hopelessly confused. Mr. Brinig...