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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gershwin became fascinated with painting in the late 1920s. He began by buying pictures that appealed to him, works by Picasso, Rouault, Derain, Utrillo and by his friends Max Weber and Maurice Sterne. By 1933 his collection was big enough to rate an exhibition at the Chicago Arts Club. Gershwin himself started painting in 1929 and came along fast with a few tips and encouragement from his artist cousin, Henry A. Botkin. He liked to paint so much that in the year or two before his death he actually preferred it to composition at the piano, even thought of giving...
...background, and taken to the camera. In Snow White, the $75,000 multiplane camera is the one chiefly used-it is much like any other movie camera, except that its action can be governed to expose one frame of film and then stop. Regular cinema cameras run at the rate of anywhere from eight to 64 frames per second. What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves in a baker's pie-wagon...
Notable, too, was Norman Soong's cool eyewitness account of the Panay bombing and sinking, and of the passengers' flight inland. At deferred press rate of 13? a word, that 5,220-word story was a bargain, would have been worth the 73?-a-word urgent cable rate used on the hottest news "breaks." Messrs. Mayell's and Alley's films of the power-diving Japanese planes will be something to see in the U. S. next week if local police departments do not censor them as too inflammatory...
...magazine cover showing the bare, potted back of a man undergoing "suction cup" treatment will fascinate, arrest, sell itself to at least 800,000 people who see it on the newsstands this week. At any rate, that is the hope of Adman John Stirling Getchell, mainspring of the new picture magazine Picture...
...American is prosperous and will almost certainly be flying the Atlantic next summer on commercial schedule, but the company has been severely criticized as a monopoly; in 1939 its profitable South American mail contracts expire and are unlikely to be renewed at the present high rate. "Therefore the only present medium of investment in the promising foreign field is the stock of a company which is facing a major crisis in the not far distant future...