Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke to him was a rich, retired lawyer named David Alexander Dunlap who had made his money not at the bar but by grubstaking prospectors, acquiring shares in the pioneer mines of the Cobalt field. Dr. Chant's talk impressed David Dunlap profoundly. He spoke to his wife about his idea of giving the university an observatory with a powerful telescope. Not long afterward he died...
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...
...strange organizations functioning in the amusement industry, Pioneer Pictures, Inc. is one of the strangest. Organized two years ago, it is run by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 30, and his Cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 35, whom Jock interested in cinema as Sonny had interested him in aviation. Board members are almost exclusively Whitneys. Last week the Whitneys had made ready for the U. S. public, at a cost of $1,000,000, the first full-length color picture since 1931-8,000 ft. and 1½ hours of 19th Century romance which may or may not revolutionize the cinema...
...Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
...results of their experiment were discussed last week by the man whom Pioneer chose as the first to carry the title of ''color director," which may soon become a familiar and important one in the Hollywood hierarchy. He was Robert Edmond Jones, famed Manhattan scenic designer, who arranged sets and worked out color schemes for both La Cucaracha and Becky Sharp. In 1930, Technicolor cameras had used two negatives, one to record reds and yellows, the other to record blues and greens. The chief faults in this process were that it blurred all outlines, failed to register either...