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There are no schooners logging eight knots over a placid sea with sails shaking; there are no sails like those of the "Bounty," made of shirt-like consistency. This is a real picture of real ships on real seas. Storms are not filmed in a bath tub with models, and everything is so realistic that you can almost smell the fish and feel the moist salt spray...

Author: By C. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/18/1937 | See Source »

...insure outside light to every office, he invited Washington newshawks in to view its wonders as soon as he got himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which they described as "not quite big enough for a swim," a bath mat embroidered with a brown donkey and the confident inscription: "We are here to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mr. Ickes' Bathroom | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...stepped back." The girl, shown by the autopsy to have been drinking heavily, left her escort at her door, entered her apartment, took off her coat and dress in the bathroom, washed out her silk stockings and hung them over the edge of the tub to dry, cold-creamed her face and put her hair up in curlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murder for Easter | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...life of Kerry (Henry Fonda). When Kerry swaps Marie six nags for Wings of the Morning, the gypsies make her go and beg her bargain back. What makes the scene confusing for Marie is that she still has on trousers, and that Kerry is bathing in a small tin tub; Sex, however, is established on its conventional lines by the time Kerry's Destiny Bay runs against Marie's Wings in the Derby. Her Spanish fiancé, Diego (Teddy Underdown), has claimed her and she would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Outside, a street car stands on the track where it was stopped early in the week to save electricity. My bath tub is full of water for what we know in these days as "flushing." Three blocks away in the centre of my hilltop suburb is an enormous black iron tank with Legionnaires in charge, where I may get water. We boil it, we boil all water, as Mr. Dykstra instructs, but water has been provided. We are using again at the request of the City Hall, canned vegetables instead of fresh to save water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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