Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be delivered by Dr. Salig Hecht of Columbia University at the Harvard Medical School. Longwood Avenue, Boston, under the auspices of the Howe Laboratery of Ophthalmology. Dr. Hecht, who was formerly connected with the Harvard Medical School, will speak this afternoon on "Visual Actuity," and Thursday afternoon on "Color Vision". The lectures will begin at 5 o'clock, and are open to members of the University...
...actual mechanics of the production, all credit is due; done throughout with technicolor and the vitaphone, it is undoubtedly an achievement, and sets a high-water mark in sound-photography which will endure for a brief space at least. Sound and color effects alike leave nothing to be desired. Although a masquerade Ball which is introduced toward the end of the performance seems a needless display of fire-works, as a whole the elaborate scenes are admirably controlled throughout by the able hand of the director, Ludwig Berger. Incidentally, he also shows considerable skill in avoiding the artificial introduction...
...article that does not fit well, is not the proper color or quantity, does not please the folks at home, or for any reason is not perfectly satisfactory, should be brought back at once, and ... we will refund the money." Citizens of Philadelphia, turning from their daily preoccupation with the Civil War, were glad to read Merchantman John Wanamaker's announcement, found him as good as his word, helped him turn over his stock so fast that soon he was Philadelphia's biggest merchant, civic monument, U. S. phenomenon...
...tones with three vertical crossbars; lowered quarter tones by flat-like figures with re versed humps, lowered three quarter tones by double-humped flats. Pianist Earth feels, as do many who have heard him on the Pacific Coast, that this quarter-tone invention provides music with a far greater color range. Some critics praised him last week, foresaw a whole new school of composition resulting from his scheme. Many reserved comment. None scorned...
Durium is the recent invention of Dr. Hal Trueman Beans, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite. In its original form it is a liquid composition the color of varnish which when exposed to heat becomes so solid that dropping or mild whacks will do it no harm. Like varnish too it can be spread with a brush but there the resemblance stops. Durium hardens so quickly that phonograph records, which are pressed from metal disks, can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press. The manufacture of records...