Word: projector
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature of the Buhl star chamber with which Director Stokley is particularly Punch-pleased is an engineering stunt unique among the world's planetaria. When the audience assembles for the show, the big, dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projector is nowhere to be seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst...
...until two hours after the hurdles and standards had been stowed away, however, that the outcome of the meet was decided as officials clustered around a movie projector in Payne Whitney Gym and watched pictures of the finish of the 440-yard relay...
...usual complications, results in just another telling,--and a too, too giddy one--of an old story. The plot has no excuse except as a vehicle for MGM's big stars, and if the picture is merely a planetarium, it very definitely needs more power in the projector. The film is nothing more than a hodge-podge of supposedly funny scenes with a minimum of continuity. In the opening scene there appears with Myrna Loy a dead ringer for Taylor, but he soon passes out of the picture and never returns, even to explain his striking resemblance to the star...
...University is a planetarium and its faculty is the firmament cast on the dome, then Harvard has, during the last week, greatly brightened her projector. For to Harvard comes Robert Frost, owner of a scintillating name in American poetry. Also Go Strawinsky, master of savage rhythms and colorful orchestrations, conceded by even his intellectual critics as one of the three most popular living composers. And finally I. A. Richards, propounder of impressive literary theories and leading searcher after values in this drifting generation. The total is a quite amazing addition to the list of big names sported by Harvard...
...first presentation of year, Harvard's three-year-old Slavic Circle will put up its projector in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room tonight for a single showing of what many critics have called the greatest motion picture over filmed in Russia...