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...your issue of Oct. 25, on p. 41, col. 3, a clear implication, if not a direct statement, is made to the effect that indirect lighting was invented in Germany by Bauhaus workmen...
This is doubtless an error. I believe it has been generally conceded that the discovery and introduction of indirect lighting was attributable to the work of the late Mr. Augustus D. Curtis...
...addition a special employee has been stationed behind the desk in the Delivery Room, whose job it is to trace all lost books and those reported missing. Further, the overhead lighting in the Reading Room has been doubled in intensity during the last three weeks. The indirect lights already installed on the tables do not work so well with a vaulted ceiling as with a flat, white ceiling, but the overhead illumination has been doubled to overcome a part of this difficulty...
...school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...even guarantees the "truthfulness and fidelity of the entire picture." He enumerates long lists of books that he has consulted in order to insure historical accuracy. To emphasis this side of the play he inserted between the 3rd and 4th acts a great triumphal procession to supplement the indirect description given by Shakespeare in the conversation between York and the Duchess. This, the play bill states, is an "historical picture in which the creations of the painter's art are endowed with animated reality." In a minor part supporting Kean was Kate Terry, the sister of the great Ellen Terry...