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Our luxuriously soft beach towels are made from brushed microfiber with a 100% cotton back for extra absorption. The top of the towel has the image printed on it, and the back is white cotton. Our beach towels are available in two different sizes: beach towel (32" x 64") and beach sheet (37" x 74").
Don't let the fancy name confuse you... a beach sheet is just a large beach towel.
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Mother Macree is director John Ford's first talking picture; although it was shot as a silent picture in late 1926, but released in January 1928... more
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Machine wash cold and tumble dry with low heat.
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"Mother Macree" is director John Ford's first talking picture; although it was shot as a silent picture in late 1926, but released in January 1928 with a "synchronized musical track and sound effects and the on-screen singing of the title song." Warner Brother's part talking picture "The Jazz Singer" had opened in October 1927 and the studios all frantically rushed to compete.
Much of this clip is Al Jolson's (1886-1950) ad libbing. George Burns claimed that Jolson was the most charismatic performer he ever saw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd1XfwDAQs&NR=1
John Ford welcomed "talkies" claiming that "silent pictures were hard work" as the camera had to be moved "around so much." Only 25 minutes survive of the sentimental Irish comedy. Duke worked as a propman on "Mother Machree." At the time he was not interested in being an actor, but being a tackle on USC's football team.
John Ford mocked Wayne when he had Duke assume "a tackle's three-point sta...
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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