Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their moorings. Some were powered by tiny electric motors, others needed a gentle push to set them going. These were "Mobiles." There were also "Stabiles"-a fantastic, animal-like limb from a tree; and the William Paley Radio Trophy of stainless steel cones surmounted by wires. These stayed perfectly still. Motionless or jiggly, they were all creations of Alexander ("Sandy") Calder, a hulking, greying, boyish onetime mechanical engineer, onetime painter. Though his Mobiles and Stabiles did not pretend to mean anything-except possibly No. 8, which resembled a pair of deliberate ballet dancers-they are oddly pleasing, oddly arresting...
Designer Calder sells his Mobiles and Stabiles, makes them all in his workshops in Manhattan or in Roxbury, Conn. Costume Designer Millia Davenport has an outdoor Mobile-a mushroom-shaped hunk of hard Lignum vitae, balanced upon another-which ordinarily is as still as a Stabile. But during the Eastern hurricane last autumn, with trees crashing all around it, the Mobile revolved ceaselessly on its axis, all through the storm...
Last fortnight the pagoda got to Mrs. Roosevelt safe & sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last...
...inventions, in almost all of which he anticipated later inventors. Some of the contraptions: a jack (see cut); a turnspit driven by the draft of a chimney; a machine for cutting files and rasps; a printing press with movable type; an olive oil press such as is still used in Italy; a pile driver; an automatic saw; an automatic gear, like the differential in an automobile; a flying machine, whose bird-like wings were supposed to be powered by the operator, lying on his back and pumping with his feet...
...elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more money. Last week a highly successful screenwriter started a scheme designed to let him have his cake...