Word: seale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrival of color photography as a standard item of Hollywood technique will be signalized only when critics give it the final seal of their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich forest greens, the deep tones of turn-of-the-century interiors, the cheerful glow of full bottles on a well-stocked bar help immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived...
...Eire Act set the seal of Parliament on the new and even freer status which Prime Minister Eamon de Valera won for his country in the British Commonwealth (TIME...
...field. In the current issue of Staff, "The official and only magazine of the Butlers Club, Inc., for the better household staffs of homes, estates, yachts," appeared the announcement that the Butlers Club will make kitchen tests of foods and drinks which, if approved, will be awarded a decorative seal: "Used and Approved by the Executive Committee of the Butlers Club...
...issue of serial notes yielding from 1¾% to 2½%. In early bidding the debentures jumped to a premium of 99½ (formal price was 99), while the notes (priced at 100) went to a premium of ½ point. Same day Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., sold $10,000,000 in 4½% debentures at 99. These offerings were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 bond issue last month (TIME, June 13). Whereas Big Steel's big issue was to finance plans laid some time...
Elected to the French Academy at 53 was André Maurois (real name: Emile Herzog), journalist, critic, biographer, historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...