Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next liberty taken by Mr. Woodworth was that of cutting the rich instrumental score of the original down to a meager violin, oboe, 'cello, horn, and piano continue. Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...
Speaking in New Lecture Hall, Professor Kluckhohn urged the use of the fact-finding approach as applied in anthropology in determining "universal" values, but pointed out that values of taste were outside the scope of this method...
...elimination, one finds only a small saving on the University budget, since the finances of the department are unique. The Institute of Geographical Exploration, which houses the Department, is privately owned, and its facilities, some of the finest for research in the University, are maintained and operated for University use...
...wife Natalie, a pretty woman with flaming red hair (which was fine for color experiments). Kalmus borrowed $300,000 and made his first motion picture, The Gulf Between, in two colors (red and green). Kalmus thought it much better than another color process, British-developed Kinemacolor, then in use. "It was nothing," said Dr. Kalmus of his old competitor, "for a horse to have two tails,. one red and one green...
Kalmus changed his process for his next picture, Toll of the Sea (1922). It was the first to use Technicolor's present process (in which no filters are used but special dyes are added to the film). It grossed some $250,000, of which Technicolor got more than half, and it sent Kalmus to Hollywood. When Jack Warner grossed $3,500,000 with his Technicolored Gold Diggers of Broadway in 1929, Technicolor hit the big time...