Word: photographable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death chamber retching, rarely report such details as the victim's mouth foaming, hair burning, flesh giving off sparks. Exception was the Ruth Snyder execution in 1928, when the tabloid New York Daily News attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen in America's press," was obtained by Photographer Tom Howard, who wore a tiny camera strapped to his ankle, had a remote-control cable release in his pocket, gave...
...immediately exaggerate this and say that he has been signed for $4,000 or $5,000. However, of the actual $2,000 at least $1,000 goes as commissions, and a good part of the residue goes for arrangements and orchestrations. Next, money must be deducted for office expenses, photograph and publicity service, entertaining, electrical transcriptions and recordings of all programs, union dues and fees, Federal, State and municipal taxes...
...year-old brother of one-time Heavyweight Champion Max Baer. He has thrashed some equally feeble opponents and had his naturally shy disposition impaired by pressagents who think, not without logic, that the only way to impress his existence on the U. S. public is to photograph him in postures even less dignified than those habitually assumed by his older brother (see cut). The fight was planned for last fortnight at the Garden's Long Island Bowl, postponed by rain, then rescheduled indoors when the demand for tickets made it apparent that Madison Square Garden could easily accommodate...
...appears on the screen, the story of two nimble-wits (Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh) who win a beauty contest with a composite photograph of Harlow, Garbo, Dietrich et al. and then palm off a dowdy chambermaid (Marion Davies) as their "original," turns out to be worth considerably less than the purchase price. Under Director Mervyn LeRoy, whose motto seems to have been "When in doubt, shout," Page Miss Glory becomes the noisiest comedy in months, with only Patsy Kelly as a morose chambermaid and Allen Jenkins as a kidnapper managing to give credible performances...
...been estimated that more reproductions of this picture than of any other single painting are to be found in U. S. homes. Yet for nearly 50 years the zealous town selectmen have rigidly refused all requests to photograph it. Once 20 years ago, when this prohibition was briefly lifted, the selectmen who allowed new color plates to be made were defeated at the next election. It was therefore news indeed last week when the selectmen of Marblehead met and voted to allow Forbes Lithograph Co. of Everett, Mass, to make four-color process plates for a Lynn lamp company...