Show X NEWS TH IS WEEK IT by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK young sh sherman erman M N NEW fairchild inherited about and the money took wings not around the night spots but in aviation avi atlon enter heir tl pools D I 1 ats V arises w which h I 1 c h money brains have made him one of the maln main A aviation profits panjandrums drums ot of the pl plane a ne designing and building just now the civil aeronautics authority certifies mr fairchilds new horsepower in line engine which he says has more power for its weight than any other for several years mr fairchild has been pioneering the in line engines as against the radial type of foreign nations in 1938 1930 he sold 20 of them to the greek government which it was later reported found them highly satisfactory his engine is about one third the size of a radial engine ills father the late george W fairchild fall child began his business career on 8 a week invented the dial telephone the computing scale and the adding machine ile he wanted his son to become a junior executive of international business machines corporation the young man however was interested mainly in cameras at 17 he be had invented a revolutionary flashlight camera and at 21 9 radial aerial camera ile he organized fairchild aerial surveys and in 1924 carried through an air camera survey of new york with a six mile camera of his invention which was a pioneering exploit in that field by 1927 he had corralee corr aled several companies in the FaIr fairchild chUd aviation corporation had igor Si gorsky building planes and soon unveiled the first cabin monoplane in the united states in harvard arvard II at the start of the war he was rejected for military service because of physical shortcomings later remedied in arizona intent on war duty of some kind ho he brought out an aerial camera for war use completed just before the aral armistice he Is typical of a number of free and adventurous self starters in uncle sams industrial and technical establishment who can be rounded up in case of trouble a refutation of the totalitarian belief that only the goose step can yield efficiency S SEVERAL EVERAL notable moving pictures of recent appearance have achieved portraits rather than caricatures ca tures they also have shown a trend away irom from moving picture the star system renaissance Is and a new rell reli looming jr high aft ance ae on coherent form in the n ture as a whole chastened chasteney Chast ened by hard times the films are taking thought and adding cubits cubias to their stature this bystander hears much talk of a comin coming g moving picture renaissance not in any splendiferous outbreak but in a new infusion of 0 creative intelligence into the industry and a longer tether for the same in focus here Is stagecoach opening in new york with generous salutations by reviewers who note that with a no star cast a natural born horse opera has been conjured into an excellent C film by the deft artistry of john ford director and dudley nichols Nl chols scenarist they also scored jointly in the hurricane and the informer this film fihn Is commended for its further trend toward simplicity and artistic integrity and away from overemphasis the traditional occupational disease of hollywood on or oft of the lot mr ford born sean in portland maine 44 years ago thinks moving picture directors see too little of the world about them in proportion to what they record renoir had the same idea insisting that if an artist observed intently enough and long enough his line would be almost self recording so mr ford stokes his bis pipe meditates observes studies types speech dress mannerisms behavior regional and occupational traits and achieves characterization ills his older brother francis was ahead of him at hollywood as ft a serial star and director john ford tagged along and soon boon had his brother working for him before he was 25 he had bad directed many westerns we sterns when ho he was 38 28 he directed the iron korse horse lie ile Is an autocrat on the lot apt to throw the script away and improvise business and lines working usually in a frayed sports jacket and old dungarees dung arees he sidesteps hollywood parties and passes much of his oil off shift time on his small yacht lie he is big biff and bulky with thinning sandy hair and glasses 0 consolidated news Irea feature tures service |