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...Foot-candle: The illumination provided by a standard candle on a surface one foot away. Intensity of light in the sun on a bright day is about 10,000 foot-candles, in the shade...
...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...
...contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes to Kay, is a series of states which man can see only in succession, but which really exist simultaneously. Therefore, man should accept life as a whole, as a composition of light & shade...
...contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
...scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...