Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juniper Grove Baptist parsonage Bilbo was struggling to build, and had given the money to Bilbo. Contractor F. T. Newton had no idea what Bilbo had done with the $25,000 he had given him to back the unsuccessful 1942 senatorial campaign of handsome, languorous Mississippian Wall Doxey, now the Senate sergeant at arms...
...Washington studio, the décor is pinball-palace modern, badly beat up. The carpet is worn through, the stained orange velveteen seats are mostly out of whack. Cigaret butts smaller than a little fingernail mat the floor, and through the thick smoke appear big wall signs: "No Smoking." No self-respecting Frenchman would let such a challenge pass, and almost everybody (except babes in arms, of whom there were several) puffs away industriously...
...Wall Streeters gossiped that Dillon, Read & Co. and the Chase National Bank had also had a hand in moving Coulter out. Dillon, Read had agreed to underwrite a $6.5 million stock issue and Chase had agreed to lend Western up to $7.5 million-on condition that the stock issue brought in the proposed $6.5 million. (Coulter will stay on as director but will sell his 240,210 shares of stock...
Look' through the Wall. "Cecil B. DeMille is out of fashion among the critics. But ... I have seen The Sign of the Cross twice over and am still an unrepentant admirer. There is no director to touch him in command of the medium: certainly none who strikes such awe into my professional mind . . . [with] his crowds and continuities, yes, and images too. ... How good and fine an artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best...
...Robert [Nanook of the North] Flaherty's cinema is as far removed from the theatrical tradition as it can possibly be. His screen is not a stage to which the action of a story is brought, but rather a magical opening in the theater wall, through which one may look out to the wide world: overseeing and overhearing the intimate things of common life which only the camera and microphone of the film artist can reveal...