Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...super-sane note was struck by followers of Mrs. Frank Granger Logan's Chicago Society for Sanity in Art: Loganite Painter Oscar Scharer hung, as the All-Illinois Art Society's "picture of the week," a painting of a horse laughing at a gallery wall of surrealist and abstract pictures...
Professional Hollywood tips its hat to a dozen top cameramen. There is lean, youthful Gregg Toland, who grabbed last year's Oscar with his eerie effects in Wuthering Heights, has this year supplied two more candidates with The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home. Toland's daring, imaginative style has earned him a reputation as the Artist of the cameramen, even though he is somewhat shorter on technical skill than his top-notch competitors. After 20 years at the job, Toland, now 36, earns $62,000 a year from his contract with Samuel Goldwyn, lives a quiet...
Actually, One Night in the Tropic?, was designed as a major film operetta. Jerome Kern, aided by Lyricists Dorothy Fields and Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote five not-so-melodious tunes for Allan Jones's piercing tenor. Short, jaunty, oldtime Musical Director A. Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...
...American feels that compulsory unity can be possible here," Oscar W. Hausermann '12, President of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, said. He emphasized the necessity of maintaining the democratic way even during a period when unity is essential...
...Joseph E. Casey, Democratic Congressman from Cambridge, will represent the Democratic Party while Oscar W. Haussermann, President of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, will speak from the business man's point of view...