Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fenway--"The Millonaire". George Arliss, the aristocrat of the screen turns democrat, in a filling station milieu...
...PhotoReflex films go to New Haven because there is where the inventor works, amiable young Luther George Simjian, Armenian-born director of Yale Medical School's photographic laboratories. An other of his devices is a fogged silver screen for the perfect projection of microscopic slides. Newly formed to exploit his latest invention is PhotoRerlex Co. of America, affiliated with Sperry Gyroscope Co. and North American Aviation Corp. Soon he hopes to enjoy royalties from a national chain of PhotoReflex booths...
...this grim piece, played his usual type of simple-minded, not too quick-willed person in his customary style. Lewis Stone gave a good performance as the lawyer who always got the boys out of jail "in the morning." Jean Haulowe, the feminine lead, was not on the screen too often. The whole cast displayed a tendency to give the usual Hollywood version of that elusive creature called the "hard-boiled egg." The grease-paint and the voice of the director were painfully present. It is rather to be suspected that the average 100 per cent impure crook would...
Yale's seven million dollar library may have to be lighted and aired artificially, the clock may be obscured by a dust-collecting rood screen, and massive pillars may occupy most of the floor space, but that it "inculcates the lie in the young student" or makes it impossible for him "ever to learn a true thing in any institution such as this" are declarations which show more naive fancy than common sense. These are only a few of the bitter condemnations of the Yale library's architecture made in the current issue of the "Nation...
...which is a precise copy of a nave with five bays. Observe the massive and unnecessary piers, the inconvenient but orthodox side aisles, the lofty transepts bristling with sanctity above and serial catalogues below. Advance to the high altar-a $25,000 book delivery desk; overhead, admire the rood screen, of utmost complexity and facility at catching dust, which has been cleverly placed to hide the important library clock from view. See the space where the great apse painting is to go. (At the present time the painting has not yet been transferred from preliminary drawings, but the work...