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...building of the Bryn Athyn Swedenborgian Cathedral was started by Raymond Pitcairn as a medieval craft centre. Lawrence Saint worked enthusiastically on its stained glass for eleven years, studied his subject more & more deeply, often wished he could completely approximate 13th Century windows by making his own glass instead of using the "stock" colors of commercial furnaces. Then one day he chanced to see in a yellowed newspaper clipping a photograph of the architect's model for the National Cathedral...
...editor of the Atlantic Month's helped them find an ace, the true story of the mutiny on H. M. S. Bounty in 1780. This resulted in the amazing trilogy, Mutiny on the Bountry. Mon Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. For movie rights to Mutiny and Pitcairn's Island they received a total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made...
...HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY-Harry L. Shapiro-Simon & Schuster ($3). Anthropologist Shapiro, who went to Pitcairn Island to find out how heredity worked out in an isolated community whose ancestors are all known (TIME, March 11, 1935), makes his report...
...other big flat glass company is Pittsburgh Plate Glass, which at one time had the makings of a plate glass trust. Established by John Ford and John Pitcairn in 1883, it was the first successful U. S. plate glass company, made all but a small fraction of the domestic plate glass output. When Mr. Ford and Mr. Pitcairn disagreed, the Fords got out and Edward Ford, son of Founder John, founded a company which later joined Messrs. Libbey and Owens* to form in Libbey-Owens-Ford an eternal rival to Pittsburgh Plate. Although largest flat glassmaker. Pittsburgh Plate also expanded...
Aside from Actor Laughton's performance, Mutiny on the Bounty is all that anyone would have any right to expect. The three-volume epic of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island (TIME. Oct. 17, 1932; Jan. 15, 1934; Nov. 5, 1934), written from and for an amazing record, was not designed for neat conversion into a scenario. Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours...