Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of First National when they bought that studio in 1928. Wallis made Dawn Patrol, Five Star Final, Little Caesar. In 1931 Warners brought their two plants together. Centre of production was the Burbank lot. Darryl Zanuck was put in charge. Wallis arrived one morning to find a workman taking his name off the door to replace it with that of Zanuck. Wallis sat on the stairs and laughed. What made it funny was that he had just finished a picture where a man came to his office to find his name being taken off the door. As an Associate...
...summered since 1930. He set up an easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department of Justice murals. It showed a dirt road winding down between budding willows to the sea; in the foreground a half-nude workman lies on a sunny rock; one woman kneels beside him while another is climbing up from the fields below (see cut). For models Artist Kroll used a onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer's daughter named...
...workman refuses to belong to the cellule "he is quietly told to get out, and if he refuses to get out then things begin to happen to him. His tools disappear or break in his hands or the machine on which he is working blows up, or things fall on him, and in a general way his life is made unbearable. Consequently the men join the cellules for the sake of peace and quietness and to be allowed to get on with their jobs and draw their wages. And when the people above declare a strike- contrary perhaps...
Flicker, Prime requisite of a heavyweight champion is that he be a superfighter. To prove that he is still the superfighter that boxing experts considered him until Max Schmeling gave him a workman- like beating last June, was the task that confronted Detroit's coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
...office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross, pressagent for the NLRB. Edward P. Rowan, Chief of the Treasury's Painting & Sculpture Section, is hanging up his coat...