Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allan Hoover, the President's son. The two are "barely acquainted," said Mrs. Davis. She explained: one day on the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md, (while Mr. Davis was Secretary of War), Allan Hoover and Alice Davis happened to stand near each other when a camera clicked...
Cell Film. Dr. Alexis Carrel, famed surgeon, put a cinema camera against that part of a microscope to which he usually puts his eye. By adjusting the lens to take one exposure per minute he took a moving picture of the growth, subdivision and death of a living cell and of a cell taken from cancerous tissue. His cell-story, magnified from microns to feet, Dr. Carrel exhibited last week to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
...picture the momentary pauses that marked the play's division into acts, it is not a photograph of a play. It is a reproduction in which dramatic values have been replaced by cinematic values and which is skillfully acted by film players trained to understand the camera. The voices come out clearly and naturally, not yet as clearly as real people talking, but modulated so that you forget the sound device. Best shots: Norma Shearer wringing a proposal from Basil Rathbone; Norma Shearer stealing back into her room with her hostess' pearls...
...Oppressed (French). Never at her best even in the comparative intimacy of a theatre because she needs a smaller place, a cabaret where she can count on every inflection of her face and voice, Raquel Meller acts like a phantom for the camera's phantom audience. Her gestures are uncertain and stylized, yet she does not seem to be a phantom of herself but of some other actress, perhaps Bernhardt, perhaps Duse. Bernhardt made a cinema 17 years ago that was a good deal like this.* It was a costume drama too, and even with the experimental craftsmanship...
...Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery who was graduated from Harvard two years after him (1891). He lunched with President Abbott Lawrence Lowell at a private table in the "yard." Following the precedent established when he recently arrived on the Mauretania (TIME, June 17) he made no objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left early to board his huge black yacht, the Corsair, to go and inspect his new 343-foot yacht, abuilding at Bath, Maine...