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Feeling that in these days of depression a Harvard man is likely to end up almost anywhere, Coach Dick Harlow of the Varsity football team has taken steps to prepare his men for a life before the Klieg lights in Hollywood. Yesterday workmen appeared on the Varsity practice field and erected a regulation photographer's tower from which cameramen will take movies of the Varsity in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIES OF VARSITY ELEVEN REVEAL SCRIMMAGE FLAWS | 9/26/1935 | See Source »

...into the brilliant Klieg lights stepped Engineer H. D. Robinson. With two other engineers he had taken turns at the controls-two hours on, four hours off. The white glare of publicity proved too much for him. Just as he was being presented with a toy model of M10001 he swayed, tottered, fell to the floor in a faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Record on Rails | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...year-old educator that the America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been the one who broached the party's radical sentiments, quoting at great length from a three-year-old speech of Rexford Tugwell's to which, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pish & Piffle | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Germany comes this screen comedy with music, now being presented at the RKO Keith Theatre. Originally produced in the Rhineland, it has been recast and filmed by Gains-borough, and now is released in America by RKO. Thursday night brought to Boston the American premiere of the picture , with Klieg lights and motion picture cameras vainly striving to turn Washington Street into Hollywood boulevard...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Cinema -:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Drama | 3/8/1932 | See Source »

...second night, just as the session was opening, the Smith radio went dead. A Klieg light used by camera men had burned out a house fuse. A butler and Son-in-Law Warner made repairs in time to pick up Permanent Chairman Robinson as he said that the roll of States would be called to name candidates for the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smith Week | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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