Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice at the news...
Fifty-six years ago, when Bostonians wished to erect a statue of Silversmith Paul Revere, the prize-winning model was turned in by a 22-year-old, Utah-born student named Cyrus E. Dallin, who beat such experts as Daniel Chester French...
Then because of historical inaccuracies in the model another contest was held. Student Dallin won a second time. But a campaign for funds to have the statue cast was stalled by newspaper criticism...
...quiet, balding Robert Stevens and congenial, greying Grover Laube-first commenced work on the 20th Century Camera six years ago in a cubicle of the Fox camera department hidden down an obscure alley of the sprawling studio. For two years they labored long after hours, completed the first working model by 1936. Their purpose: to produce an instrument simple and speedy to operate, light enough to be toted by one man. An automatic focussing device would eliminate the time-eating practice of plunging a tape into an actor's face to measure his distance from the camera. A built...
...average 30-day shooting schedule, $10,000 to $20,000 a picture. This would mean at least $500,000 a year to Fox alone, a possible $5,000,000 saving to the industry each year. Quickly an order went to a Syracuse manufacturer for ten cameras of the same model to cost around $13,000 apiece, the first of which is now quietly earning its way memorializing the features of Alice Faye...