Word: displays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early German printing is the subject of a new display in the Widener Treasure Room. The exhibitions of modern fine printing and of Elizabethan books are still to be seen, but the composition of these displays has changed to some extent...
...never before witnessed a "Chauve-Souris" production the display now on view should prove eminently worth while. It is a fresh breath in a theatrical world just now grown quite sultry. But, on the other hand, warning must be issued that if attending this revue will mean your second or third visit, it may not be all that past memories lead you to expect. For from our carefully amassed comments of theatregoers we find it reported that there is too much sameness in the productions. There is less dash; the joie de vivre seems to have worn...
...Straining the medium between the polarizers, which in our case is a celluloid model of the machine we are working on, increases the transmission through the second polarizer and a color scale is produced similar to that produced by the passage of light through a prism. By photographing the display of colors and their form, we can determine the amount of stress applied to the model and the limit of stress which can be applied...
Illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson constitute the current exhibit in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room The display includes original drawings by the artist as well as books containing reproductions of his work...
...vast a project as Chicago's. He is donating his services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...