Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fogg Museum's Technical Research Department has arranged an exhibition of over a hundred photographs taken by infra-red, ultra-violet and X-ray photography of some important European and American paintings, it was announced today...
...Ray Technique...
Among the problems illustrated are the restoration of damaged and repainted pictures, the cleaning off of layers of opaque varnish, and the study by means of the prints of the X-ray shadowgraph of not only the condition of a painting but also of the technique of old masters...
...usefulness of the X-ray in penetrating to the under layers of paint without damaging the work is illustrated. In one case, it is shown, the X-ray indicates that the Fogg Museum probably possesses a true portrait by the colonial artist Copley, and not an inferior copy. The picture's authenticity had been questioned because the surface painting is inferior to the artist's usual work...
...conspicuous one, for the whole complex picture. As the manager of a radio hour for which George Burns and Gracie Allen are the sponsors, one of his major tribulations is coping with the lunacy of Gracie, which is only slightly suppressed by George. Then there are Shirley Ross and Ray Milland, who in addition to further complicating things for Jack Benny, supply the indispensable young love. Miss Ross, in acting very badly and running away, gives Martha Raye, the substitute, a chance to be undignified and unladylike to her heart's content. And Bob (Bazooka) Burns overshadows the whole thing...