Word: celluloid
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...within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...which automatically "justifies" (spaces out) each line while the words are being typed, so that all lines come out even on the right-hand side. It would make I. B. M.'s electric typewriter and Mr. SpielVogel's elastic paper as outdated as celluloid collars. Undismayed, inventive Mr. SpielVogel announced last week that he has one called a Typrinter, which will be ready for manufacture as soon as he gets his patents, fills the bill...
...objectionable of the Double Features, and he too climbs the carpeted stairway to emerge from the dark onto the top of the world, follows the dancing spot of the flashlight to a seat, and settles back to laugh or cry with housewives and clerks under the spell of the Celluloid Muse...
...Pictures are too ephemeral in time and material to create an art. The test of an art is endurance. . . . The films have as much chance against the Theatre as a celluloid cat chasing an asbestos rat through Hell...
...congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within the reach of the masses. For in place of a cumbersome chorus and orchestra, Conductor Shavitch used sound-film. When the Toreador Song rang out powerfully, only 16 were singing it from the stage. In celluloid, the Moscow Grand Opera Chorus made them sound like...