Word: screening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their airmen that the French did that last month's tremendous work so successfully. At one point, where an important road ran for a mile in the sight of the Germans, the French constructed a barrier some twenty feet high, made of branches and leaves woven through a wire screen, thus effectually shutting off all view for the entire mile...
...will be closed to all except Yale graduates and undergraduates, and while no formal program of events is being planned for the evening, each class will enjoy itself in its own way in the enclosed space. There will be provided some fireworks and possibly an exhibition on an opening screen of motion pictures of scenes from Yale undergraduate life...
This year he is interpreting "Troilus and Cressida" in a new light, and is using many ultra-modern staging devices. The Gordon Craige screen method is to be used, and brilliancy will be afforded by strong floods of light instead of by paint and tinsel. Much of the action of the piece will take place on the apron of the stage, thus eliminating long and tedious intermissions...
...defect in orchestration has been corrected by the addition of more violins. The number of pieces in the orchestra will total 102. In addition to this the orchestra pit has been constructed over a hollow wooden structure which acts as a sounding box. Another innovation is a curved screen, in front of the footlights, which will throw the volume of sound to the last row of seats. To insure an unobstructed view of the singers by those on the side seats an apron has been extended nine feet out from the front of the stage and upon this most...
...pillars forming alcoves. A cast of the "Golden Gate" of the Freiburg Cathedral at its further end forms the entrance to the Gothic Hall beyond. This arrangement is copied from the crossing and choir of a church. It also gives an appropriate location for a cast of the rood screen of Naunberg Cathedral. The Renaissance hall, easily the largest, is seventy feet long by fifty wide, and has a flat ceiling supported by columns which divide the hall into two parts...