Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though reputable artists do not color photographs, as a labor saving device many throw the reflection of a photograph on a blank canvas by means of a magic lantern, block in the rough outline of the sitter's pose with charcoal...
...held a rump show on West 57th Street of their rejected concrete-and-gaspipe designs. But the committee of the Architectural League had not excluded all examples of functional architecture. There were rows & rows of photographs and designs of such buildings, and chief exhibit of the show was the "Magic House," a complete three-story affair of polished aluminum and glass, designed to take the place of the rows of jerry-built Olde Englysshe cottages for families of modest means which speckle U. S. suburbs. Designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, the Magic House has no excavated basement...
Enthusiastic about the Magic House (which will sell for less than $5,000) was well-known Modernist Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, co-architect of the Chicago World's Fair and of Manhattan's much- criticized Radio City (TIME, March 16). Said...
...William Fox, who is still a director of the company which bears his name, who for four more years will be given a salary of $500,000, and who can still go to the village movie-house in Woodmere, L. I. to see Fox productions bearing the once magic legend: "William Fox Presents...
...Bedouin tribe, with Druses in the Arabian mountains, in a whirling-dervish monastery at Tripoli, with Yezidee devil worshipers in Kurdistan, with voodoo worshipers in Haiti. During the War he served as a private in the French army and was gassed at Verdun. Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...