Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before curtain time, a member of the audience took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave...
...Hollanders everywhere, a Philips' incandescent lamp bulb is as much a symbol of their country as a tulip. Founded in 1891 by studious Gerard Philips, 32, a professor at the Delft Polytechnic School, the company started out in an abandoned tannery making 30 light bulbs a day. Though Philips taught himself and then ten ex-farm hands how to make bulbs, he was no good at selling them. In 1895 the company was up for sale when younger brother Anton, 20, quit a promising banking career to take over sales, did so well that by 1897 the company began...
...more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication of Madrid's first regular synagogue since 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, urged on by the Spanish Inquisition, ordered all Jews expelled from the land in which Judaism had once flourished...
...quartz lamp billed as "one of the most important basic improvements in incandescent lamps since Thomas Edison." The pencil-shaped tube lasts twice as long and is one two-hundredth the size of a standard industrial lighting lamp, does not grow dim throughout its life. Iodine vapor in the bulb prevents the formation of blackening carbon on the inside; the lamp's high operating temperature incinerates dirt that touches the outside. Because of their small size, the new lamps can be used to throw exact lighting patterns for show windows, building facades, sports fields, airports. They will permit development...
...scenery for those who think they have to have scenery," comments the Stage Manager when two trellises are pushed out onto the stage. There are lighting directions--and Lewis Lehman's lighting was effective--but one has the feeling that the play could get by on the one bare bulb which shines on the stage at the beginning of the first...