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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1933
Page
2
The article praises bright spring styles with white organdie, matelasse taffeta, velvet touches, and bold color contrasts. It notes puffed sleeves, Gibson girl influence, velvet belts and bows, and two piece outfits in dove gray worsted with platinum accessories. Fashion stays lively through 1933 trends.
This dolor litte frock is an unusually pretty style for the flower girl who expects to play an important role in a spring wedding. It can be made at home at little expense with mousseline chiffon or georgette. The pleated arrangement is striking and new, reflecting Parisian fashion trends for both children and adults.
The piece notes vivid new tones for crepes and fashion this winter, listing cyclamen mauve cyclamen pink canary yellow and waiter green as popular choices, with palettes spanning black brown red and white.
Hair stays short with new hats revealing a sleek short look. The Double-up coif is shown by smartcat hairdressers, brushing the forehead back into a swirl around the ears, suitable for both morning and evening wear.
Couture reports hint a strong season for cottons and linens with natural uncolored suits paired with dark blouses. Narrower daytime skirts and lower waistlines emerge while necklines remain high with a few open square cuts in day dresses and jackets.
The piece notes veils growing flippant on hats with color accents and varied lengths from eye to shoulder. It highlights the Talbot style tied under the chin, Nerrow belting ribbon effects, and multi color combinations seen in recent imported millinery collections.
A humorous portrait of George Extmore and his talkative stomach. The essay traces his lifelong appetite misadventures from childhood through college to old age, highlighting the stomach as a neglected hero of daily life. It ends with a moral about listening to distant radio broadcasts.
A Canadian sister and I left home for New York with no connections or knowledge of the film industry. After a chance encounter with an agent, we faced rejection and a grind at a studio, where a single day’s work led to steady roles. Athole left for marriage, but I kept rising from extras to small parts and a Mayer contract, then MGM after the merger. I later starred in films such as Spilling Through with March, Howard, and Strange Interlude with Gable Morgan and O Sullivan.
Lima undergoes a modernization with water and sewer upgrades, new highways, and modern roads transforming old and new areas. Streets retain historic names amid rapid change, while landmarks like the monastery of San Francisco and the Cathedral illustrate enduring heritage.
A pyrhelimeter uses a blackened silver disk with a water-filled thermometer bulb to gauge solar heating. It defines the solar constant at about 1.04 calories per minute per square centimeter, illustrating the enormous energy reaching Earth by imagining a one mile square silver disk containing 750 tons of water.
The island of Haiti hosted the first European settlement in the New World and served as the base for French buccaneers. It withstood British assault led by Toussaint Louverture in 1726. Later rulers included a French general who crowned himself emperor and several Black leaders who held presidential or imperial titles through later revolutions.
A new volume surveys film studio language and includes an appendix listing hundreds of terms coined in studios. Although many terms are not elegant, they are highly expressive and have entered common usage.
Actor George Arliss imagines bringing Samuel Pepys the diarist Cagliostro the eighteenth century charlatan and the Marquis of Queensberry to stage or screen. He notes the Queensberry legend as London’s known “Old” figure and recalls the later boxing sponsorship.
A noted film industry figure Ariesa Smackar nicknamed Smacker is recognized by studio sound experts for his kissing scenes. He tends to minimize kissing during editing, removing many kisses to streamline the storytelling and reduce fervor on camera.
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