Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proof that Veronese intended to paint Venus as a half naked lady rather than as a nude Renaissance goddess has been, supplied by workers at the Fogg Art Museum who have been using the X-ray to test the authenticity of masterpieces. The rays have uncovered the first version of the Italian artist's "Mars and Venus" where the figure of Venus was half draped...
...When (book, music & lyrics by Jack McGowan, Ray Henderson & Ted Koehler; McGowan & Henderson, producers). Sounder entertainment than most of its kind, Say When presents no innovations but several elaborations on the hoary old pattern of musical comedy. There are two pairs of lovers-a vaudeville team which has met a couple of female bluebloods from Long Island on a boat. There is also the affair of a smuggled ring and a liaison between the girls' father and a theatrical baggage. Jack McGowan, master of the "situation gag" rather than the outright nifty, has written a book whose wheezes wilt...
...Louis Kid (Warner) shows James Cagney receiving a cuff on the jaw from his leading lady instead of giving her one. Because he was tired of punching with his fists in pictures. Cagney suggested a variation to Director Ray Enright. In The St. Louis Kid he wears bandages on his hands, butts his way through brawls with his head. In other respects, the picture is standard Cagney entertainment, a rapid, realistic fantasy about a truck-driver who wants a quiet weekend in the country. Best shot: Cagney being welcomed into a village jail by a warden who loves company...
...inventor of a brand new way of operating on the gall bladder and the bowels with no risk of peritonitis is Dr. Lester Ray Whitaker of Boston. Last week Dr. Whitaker was in Manhattan telling the Academy of Physical Medicine of his latest surgical trick. For both operations he uses hot electric knives which sever, sear and sterilize...
Unhappy Mr. Miller was able to discern one ray of light. That was the Widows' & Widowers' Convention at Atlantic City over the weekend. Said he, bravely: "I'll get a chance to look over the seven or eight hundred other women and we'll have applejack and peanuts...