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JANUARY 7,1947
'Color Expresses Personalities'
—Film Director
Hollywood. (UP)—Psychoanalyze yourself in technicolor, says a Hollywood director. Perhaps in purple, instead of gray, you, too, can be a Lana Turner.
Robien Mamoulian, who directed the first technicolor film feature, "Becky Sharp," and since has developed revolutionary techniques for its use, believes that color is a powerful means of expressing emotions and personality.
Take Lana Turner now, he said. She's purple. And purple, conversely, gives somewhat the same impression that Lana does. Well, anyway, he said, you might try it.
"Color is a new dimension of realism, and film craftsmans should try to evolve a language of color," said Mr. Mamoulian, whose specialty is uniting the words, music, dancing, sets and costumes of a production into a dramatic whole.
He tried out his ideas in the Broadway hit productions of "Oklahoma!" "Carousel" and "St. Louis Woman" and now it piloting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's musical interpretation (in color, naturally) of Eugene O'Neill's "Ah Wilderness," now titled "Holiday Holiday."
"He's not the pastel type," the director explained. "Like Clark Gable and Robert Taylor, he is more at ease in the simple early American type of room with wood tones, greens and rough colors."
Translating the psychology of color into everyday use, Mr. Mamoultan in "Summer Holiday" shied away from pastels for sets surrounding Mickey Rooney.
Heroine Gloria de Haven, the typical American girl and "perfect wife" type, he interprets in yellow-green. But if you have the explosive personality of Marilyn Maxwell, the picture's siren, your personality color is yellow-red.
For sheer romance, typified by Jeanette MacDonald, stick to dusty pink. The womanly woman such as Greer Garson expresses her personality, in illac.
Judy Garland takes red-orange- Katharine Hepburn cobalt blue-young Elizabeth Taylor cerulean blue-and the streamlined athletic girl, like Esther Williams, is the blue-green type.
Money, Mothers Are Marital Sore Spots
New York. (UP)—Money may not be the root of all evil but it is at the root of the largest part of all family bickering, according to Dr. Clifford R. Adams, director of the marriage counseling service at Penn State college.
Dr. Adams says that along with money, the greatest potential trouble-maker is the husband's mother.
"A wife can usually get on with her own mother," he explains, but such is not the case with the husband's mother, especially when "the two women are cooped up all day together in the house."
'The basic element usually found behind all serious feuding is a feeling of frustration, according to Dr. Adams, who writes:
"Such frustration arises, for example, when either mate feels he or she does not have enough money to do all the things desired. Quarrelling, a senseless procedure, is simply one way of dealing with a frustrating situation. The yelling and abuse do not solve anything. The sensible approach is to face the problem frankly and talk it out."
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World War II Pension Roll Doubles
The list of World War II veterans drawing disability compensation has doubled the past year, the VA reports. While the disabled roll from previous wars dropped slightly, the WW II list increased from 859,762 to 1,682,216. Each figure in the above drawing represents 100,000 active cases.
Beer,'The International Drink, Is Not Fattening, Brewers Contend
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Advance notices hearling the publication of the beer manual said it was couched in language anybody could understand.
Under a question and answer section captioned "Is beer fattening?" the four authors—master brewers all—with malt in their hair—hedge a little bit about poundage.
"Beer may be a factor insofar as it stimulates the appetite and digestion of food, but by the same token, any zestful drink containing carbon dioxide causes a similar effect."
St. Louis. (UP)—Your friend, the bartender, didn't get that big bulge under his apron from drinking beer.
The chances are he is just a pig at the table. On page 192 of "The Practical Brewer," which has been turned loose in book form, it says that "beer definitely is not fattening."
It's a calorie-packed food, with a "definite tonic value," in case you feel the need of a tonic or want an excuse to run down to the corner pub.
But as the brewer-writers get on into the subject, they get fouled up in the technical language they know, but we don't. So to keep the public up on the big words they use to finally come up with a scuttle of suds, they wind up the book with a terminology—from A to Z.
"The Practical Brewer" (228 pages plus a careful index) was conceived, written, and published in St. Louis, which considers itself the beer capital of the world—Milwaukee can take a back seat.
A—'abschiebien' —the receding of the first foam head of wort beginning
to ferment from the sides of the vessel.
Z—"zwickel"—test cock; sampler It is interesting to note that beer, which the book says "has always been international" has been that way for some 6,000 years.
Presumably that 6.000 years takes in the period when America was undergoing that "noble experiment" and when brewers kept their hand in by making "near-beer."
8,145,000 Population Predicted For N.Y.
New York. (UP)—New York's population in 1950 will be 8,145,000, an increase of 600,000 over the 1940 census figures, it was indicated in a population growth survey.
By 1970 the population will have increased another 400,000 to 8,585,000, and will level off thereafter, a survey the Consolidated Edison Company predicted.
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'Fireproof' Hotels Not Always So, Public Warned
New York. (UP)—Distinctions between the terms "fireproof" and "fireproof construction" as applied to hotel and other public places are explained in a statement by W. E. Mallalieu, general manager of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
He expressed concern over the public's reaction to the recent disasters in the Hotel LaSalle fire in Chicago and the Hotel Winecoff fire in Atlanta.
Some hotels, especially the newer ones, which were built under the requirements of a city building code modeled upon the building code recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, could correctly advertise that they were fireproof, Malliaille said.
"The term 'fireproof construction,' as used by the National Board of Fire Underwriters and other fire insurance interests," Mallalieu said, "indicates a type of construction in which the contents of the building can be completely destroyed and yet the framework of the building, including the interior, will be capable of being rehabilitated and continued in use.
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"The term 'fireproof' as applied to a hotel should not be used even though the structure of the building is of fireproof construction—unless all vertical openings, such as stairs, elevators and other shafts, are enclosed with partitions and have fire doors on all openings, thus preventing the upward travel of the fire from one floor to another.
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"This vertical travel of fire was the prime cause of death and injury in both the Chicago and the Atlanta hotel fires.
"The separating partition and doorway between rooms and the corridor must be of such type as to prevent the ready spread of fire from the room to the corridor, or from the corridor to the room. This will fail no transom, and that any air conditioning system shall be of such a design as not to permit the travel of heated, poisonous gases into rooms.
Mallalieu said fire insurance interests have no police power to require such features, and that it was up to individual communities to make such requirements.
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Holds Laws Won't End Hotel Fires
Harrisburg, Pa. (UP)—Laws aimed at the prevention of hotel fires are "silly," in the opinion of Franklin Moore, president of the Inter-American Hotels association.
Moore said adherence to this pattern is more likely to do the trick. Education, through effective publicity means, of hotel guests not to smoke in bed and not to leave their rooms unless instructed, in case of fire.
He says you can declare it illegal to smoke in bed, but "that won't keep people from being negligent."
A well-run watchman system to patrol every hall several times an hour.
A properly trained hotel staff to prevent fires, keep them from spreading when discovered, and to instruct guests to check loss of life by avoiding panic.
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