Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a million Hitler portraits a year. His Hitler pictures range from miniatures to 8-by-12-foot posters which sell for 1,050 marks ($420). For ordinary newspictures his standard price to German publications is 20 to 25 marks, but U. S. rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend: Adolf Hitler well knows that the least flattering photographs of himself never leave the dark room...
...desks of some 1,600 executives and near-executives who work in Rockefeller Center there has appeared each fortnight this year a small four-page paper called Vista. Because Vista's editor and publisher identifies herself simply as "Andra" (her real name is Margaret Russell) and because the photograph of Andra which adorns the first page is sultry and provocative, most of these people have given the paper at least one glance...
...sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
...important of whom is. . . ." The camera cuts to a page of the Manhattan Telephone Directory and telescopes down on the name of "John Mason, lawyer." The opening action shot then shows Mason (James Stewart) pausing on his way to work to examine something he is carrying-a cabinet-size photograph of his wife (Carole Lombard...
...unconvincing; the slushy sentimentality is slopped on in gobs; and there is an undercurrent of heavy seriousness that weighs the picture down. Only Mickey Rooney of the principal players retains his original spontaneity, and his scenes really sparkle; the other players, especially Cecilia Parker, might almost as well be photograph records. The film is strictly for those unfamiliar with the Hardys, and "Dramatic School," the co-feature, is strictly for fans of Luise Rainer...