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...Broad Background Necessary...
Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn (N. Y.) Cemetery was delighted. With a professional eye he inspected the plot of real grass, the border of daffodils, the flowering dogwood blossoms, the background of evergreens and the three tombstones that they set off. To Ernest Leland, No. I tombstone designer in the U. S., he cried...
...marvelous training for anyone who has ambitions to go into theatrical work, as being in front of an audience helps a lot in getting over self-consciousness." Toby recalled with a laugh how self-conscious she had been when she first began seting. With undergraduate dramatic experience as a background the college graduate definitely has as good a chance to succeed on the stage as anyone brought up in the business. "The hard part," said Toby, "is to get started. You have to attract attention if you're unknown, and my advice is just to do something spectacular...
Olympic torch popped up. On the other side of the run, the Olympic flag, which consists of a white background decorated with five interlocking circles to represent the Continents, floated into the air. The Olympic bell rang. All the church bells of Garmisch tinkled in response. A cannon, lugged into the arena by oxen, boomed. The bands played the Olympic hymn. The crowd cheered, clapped, yelped "Heils" that echoed down from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right...
...Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light, in which magnificent photography of the Dolomites as background for a fairy tale corroborated Leni Riefenstahl's thesis that sex appeal is unnecessary in the cinema...