Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British seadog, who had sailed the Pacific from the Antarctic and the South Sea Islands to Alaska, anchored his good ship Resolution in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There was joy among the natives, for the Great White God and his crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down by the remains of the juice. Every day there...
...Canada, had taken steps to provide in every way for the comfort and convenience of its visitors.* On the first day of the convention the delegates visited "Cranbrook," the manorial estate of famed publisher George G. Booth. There, in a sweltering heat, they admired the cool lawns, the shade under the trees, the pellucid depths of a large swimming pool. On the next evening, as guests of the Detroit Free Press, News & Times, the advertising men enjoyed an almost miraculous party...
...Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room. Vitaphone captures sounds, not on the film, but on a wax disc similar to a phonograph record. Some theatres have...
...most conspicuous devotee is the Theatre Guild of New York, with a long record of successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest or box office magnetism was lacking, and so Boston's theaters must depend consistently on what New York may send them. The times are ripe for some pioneer to do for Boston what...
...Seats presents the struggle of a lady with a shady past to keep her daughter out 01 the shade. After a fine first act in which the lady in question, well played by Joan Storm, fights with the man who has been keeping her and takes a job in a traveling burlesque show, Author Edward Massey gets so many ideas that he has no more time for true writing. He turns for help to a theatrical cliché-the daughter (Patricia Barclay) falls in love with a man who has been her mother's lover. But even the clich...