Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kiddies' Matinee. In Etna, Pa., a little boy stepped up to a captured Japanese machine gun on display in a movie lobby, pressed the trigger, chattered a stream of bullets into the opposite wall...
...example, one wall of our Reception Center is covered right now with an exhibition of pictures chosen from the most dramatic shots in our files of "Five Years of War." As a permanent display you will find some of the biggest maps you ever saw-the famous "orthographic projection" maps of Cartographer Richard Edes Harrison-now expanded to thirteen feet across to give you a striking illusion of being able to look down on the world from a plane high in the super-stratosphere. And other exhibits will change from month to month to try to keep pace with...
...similarly chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...
...lush assortment of girls, much bright costuming and some stylish Norman Bel-Geddes sets give The Seven Lively Arts its fine as well as foolish moments of display. Best moment: a spirited extravaganza celebrating Producer Rose's past glories (Jumbo, the Aquacade, Carmen Jones)-a fetching but futile attempt of the Rose to outbloom the Lillie...
...feature of the exhibit is the "Vectograph," a three-dimensional picture taken from the air, which, viewed with the naked eye, seems to be a blurred photograph, but which appears as a revealing photograph in three dimensional detail, when seen through a special polaroid viewer. Supplementing the 16-poster display is a set of pictures describing the officers' programs in the Yard...