Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor of mundane advantages which she considers more important. What gave Author Barry's idea its novelty when it was successfully produced as a play last year was the fact that the roles usually assigned to wife and mistress in such a triangle were reversed. Under the sharp beam of a projection machine, it becomes apparent that this novelty was the principal virtue of The Animal Kingdom. As Tom Collier's designing wife, Myrna Loy is attractive enough to make you believe that Collier would desert a mistress for her; attractive enough to make you believe that...
...lens projected an enlarged image of the picture upon a screen several feet away from the lantern. In Dr. Lark-Horovitz's arrangement the screen is a sheet of sensitive photographic film 9 ft. from the lantern light. The lantern light is a vacuum tube projecting a strong beam of x-rays. For slides he used a thin sheet of copper or shallow containers of volatile liquids. The copper slide yielded the most striking results...
Dramatically as in an Italian opera a beam from an emergency floodlight suddenly lit the tableau. The emergency dynamos were working...
...Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians in a dungeon, waiting to be martyred, with a young and handsome female Christian under a beam of light in the centre...
...follows the correct one in until he encounters a small zone of silence. That tells him he is directly over the beacon near the field. That is enough. Completely blind landings are not required. Near perfection after long experiment are a localizing runway beacon and a radio "landing beam" down which the pilot may "slide" to a safe landing. But thus far there is no thought of flying passengers into a completely blind field. (Occasionally Eastern Air mail pilots do land by instrument at Newark in fog so thick that on the ground, with no radio functioning, they must taxi...