Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
...Buckler, of Oxford, will give a lecture on "Byzantine Frescoes Recently Discovered in Cyprus" at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum. The lecture will be supplemented with lantern slides and is open to the public...
...Fenton Benedict Turck Jr. He worked with test tubes before he could play marbles, cultivated streptococci before he could write his A B C's. At 9, a zealous, frail, brown-eyed boy, he lectured the Chicago Microscopical Society on microbes and laboratory technique, showed his own lantern slides. During a fatiguing lecture which ran far beyond his regular bedtime, he grew pale. A wise scholar picked up the child, held him inverted by his feet. Right-side up again Young Turck continued his lecture. Father Turck decided that biology excited the child too much, diverted him to mathematics...
When Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Tammany's big-bodied, lantern-jawed stopgap, moved into New York City Hall fortnight ago, he promptly hung up in his private office a picture of Rev. Michael Earls who had taught him English at Holy Cross College. Last week the O'Brien English continued to make front-page news as veteran reporters, accustomed to the neat nothings of James John Walker, attempted to extract sense from the new Mayor's utterances...
...Purdue University (Lafayette, Ind.) Physicist Karl Lark-Horovitz last week showed big magic lantern pictures of atoms in action. In oldtime magic lanterns, a strong light shone through an illustrated glass slide. A lens projected an enlarged image of the picture upon a screen several feet away from the lantern. In Dr. Lark-Horovitz's arrangement the screen is a sheet of sensitive photographic film 9 ft. from the lantern light. The lantern light is a vacuum tube projecting a strong beam of x-rays. For slides he used a thin sheet of copper or shallow containers of volatile...