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...political champion may make a huge success in the provinces, but he is not worth his ice water until he has cried his cause in New York City. Abraham Lincoln made his first big national impression before an audience in Cooper Union in 1860. William Jennings Bryan chose the rostrum of old Madison Square Garden to launch his first Presidential campaign in 1896. Such job-seekers as Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt have counted New York the climax of their speaking tours. Similarly Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., after opening the membership drive...
Bride in 1931. Jock Whitney's literary cronies are Donald Ogden Stewart and Robert Benchley, who spend most of their time in Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
...blue and yellow), which recorded all the colors of the rainbow with fidelity. By this time the only producer who would listen to him was Walt Disney, whose Silly Symphonies in 1932 were the first movies made with the new three-color process and the ones which inspired Producer Cooper to interest the Whitneys in color. Said Color Director Jones: ". . . Black & white films had never interested me. Nor had the old two-color process, with its limited color range. . . . The technique of color is mechanically perfect now. Just as soon as the public gets a taste for color, it will...
...audience plainly, see them hazily through the water. "Once," said she, "a guy waved a $1,000 bill in front of the bowl and asked me to stand up. They said he was a big banker but how was I to know the bill wasn't counterfeit? Gary Cooper came back of the bowl to see me one night. My, he was so bashful he got all red. Jim Farley came to see me, too. but he wasn't bashful at all, just nice and fatherly. But most nights it got awfully dull." To pass the time Miss...
Died. Percy Procter, 83, brother of William A. and Harley Procter who with James Gamble founded the Cincinnati soap firm, uncle of its late Board Chairman William Cooper Procter; in Atlantic City. Connected for a time with the firm, Percy Procter left it to found Procter-Collier Advertising...