Word: projectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Saturday nights, Gauguin's Queen of the Areois swings away from the wall on a hinge, a concealed projector lights up, a screen drops from the ceiling, and the group watches a new movie. Also a photographer of considerable skill, Paley displays his albums to guests at home. In the kind of company he usually keeps, he is hardly picture-dropping, but a casual flip of the pages turns up some remarkable names and moments: Anthony Eden, thin as wire, stretched out in a bathing suit at Cap d'Antibes during a sojourn with the Paleys...
...Such an occasion clearly called for an exchange of gifts, and they were lavish. The President gave the 71-year-old monarch a steel-and-silver replica of the sword General George Washington carried throughout most of the Revolutionary War, a Tiffany silver desk set, a 16-mm. movie projector with films of Selassie's red-carpet arrival at Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix...
...lights in the hall fade. The slide projector goes on, and there on the screen is a picture of John and Jacqueline Kennedy with a towering, dour man about whom 40 million Frenchmen may be right. Says the lecturer's voice of Charles de Gaulle: "What a wonderful leader for the French he has been. How he has sacrificed himself! The women don't make speeches in France, and Madame de Gaulle was quite surprised when I told her what the ladies do over here...
...soon be playing on screens in theaters all over the country-and in color. National General Corp., which owns a chain of West Coast theaters, announced last week that it is equipping 150 of its own theaters and 200 others with General Electric's new "light valve" projector. If Broadway producers and sport promoters sign up as eagerly as National General hopes they will, nationwide theater pay-TV may be a reality within a year...
...striking success at capturing likenesses in his portraits. Confessed ex-Private Ray Seide. now art director of a Manhattan ad agency, in an Esquire article: "When we received the photograph or illustration [on which the Eisenhower painting was to be based], I would put it into a projector. If the machine didn't throw an image large enough for the size of the canvas the President wanted, I would draw the subject larger. Then I would outline in charcoal on the canvas the subject the President wanted to paint. The President got a great deal of satisfaction from...