Word: tures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little was there to surprise the critical. By its constitution the National Academy gives members the right to show one pic ture in the annual exhibition. Not all take advantage of this but there are 311 academicians. In addition, a certain number of artists are invited to submit works, which leaves precious little wall space for the thousands of uninvited canvases that the conservative hanging committee must annually examine, reject...
...counting on has gone to a young Pole. His disappointment makes him susceptible when invited to join a secret organization whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from taking jobs away from U. S. workmen. Ensuing developments, derived from the activities of Detroit's "Black Legion," make the pic ture one of the most effective in Warner Brothers series of industrial problem plays...
...referring principally to those two heritages from the Wiggin regime, Fox Film and General Theatres Equipment. "Obviously," said conservative Banker Aldrich, "holdings of this kind can not be regarded as normal earning assets for a commercial bank and the income de rived from them, therefore, is in the na ture of special revenue rather than ordinary earnings...
...home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn from production four years later...
...picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst...