Word: lanterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This deal and the trotting race at the end constitute all the dramatic action in David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
...left their cars in snowbanks, put up for the night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
...publishing. The big songs then were "Annie Rooney" (1890), "Daisy Bell" (1892), "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" (1892), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1894). Marks wrote a lyric, "The Lost Child." Joe Stern, a necktie salesman, wrote the music. They plugged their product with colored lantern slides which showed a policeman encountering in the streets a waif, who at the station house turns out to be his long-lost daughter...
...Corps, will give a lecture entitled "From Da Vinci to the Wright Brothers" on Wednesday evening, February 28 at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of the Geographical Institute. This is the second of a series of public lectures on serial photography. The talk will be illustrated with lantern slides and motion pictures...
...Union Committee announces a lecture on February 8 at 7.30 o'clock in the upstairs common room by Donald H. McLaughlin, professor of Mining Engineering and tutor in the Division of Geological Sciences, on Gold mining. The lecture will be illustrated by numerous lantern slides, and will take up the various phases of gold mining with descriptions of the methods used and a geographical explanation of the places where gold is most likely to be found...