Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent to the general approbation of the acting of Charles Ray. For his sake and for the undoubted historical value of the picture, it must be labeled worthy of consideration and approval...
MASQUERADE-Ben Ray Redman- Me Bride ($1.50). An interesting young critic who is one of the best translators we have collects his verse. Influence of T. S. Eliot, influence of sonnets, classic and modern, some satire, pleasingly keen, capability, technique, promise, no great originality, a mind that has not quite found itself, a voice a little too fond of the accent of other poetic voices. But still, capability, technique, promise-no more unusual promise than in the case of several others, but indubitably present nevertheless...
...Stray X-rays escaping from a laboratory or doctor's office and endangering the health of persons in adjoining rooms will have their teeth pulled by an invention of Maximilian Toch, Manhattan chemist. Metallic lead sheathing has been used in such rooms to keep the rays in, but this is costly and the heavy metal requires special strengthening of building walls. Toch's method is the use of a barium compound in the plaster or paint on the walls of the X-ray room, barium being impervious to the rays...
...formation and transmission, made use of a remarkable instrument, which in the dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel end of a large horn in such a way that whenever Professor Saunders spoke the streak of light on the screen waved, reproducing exactly the sound waves. He then made sounds illustrating complicated waves and overtones...
...Story. Young Felix Hunter is a person of invincible amiability. He would greet Lucifer himself with undiminished good humor. A large proportion of his early life appears to have been devoted to a demonstration of his affability in the face of continued reverses. No ray of light is shed upon his drab existence that is not promptly followed by compensating catastrophe. Each misfortune he welcomes with an apt witticism. It is said of him that he proceeds " triumphing from failure to failure." Many of his set-backs are in themselves inconsiderable. They form an overwhelming aggregate...