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Retired President Britton Budd of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois was invited to last week's party, too. He could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop...
Despite advertising posters showing a lion leaping from a screen, and Barbara Britton extending entreating arms to passers-by, the action in Bwana Devil, the first full length three dimensional motion picture, stays safely within the screen. Not that the picture is a fraud, it has the same three dimensional effect as does a steriopticon viewer...
...third dimensional traps into which author, producer, and director Arch Oboler blundered is the temptation to "throw" things at the audience. Lions leap, spears hurtle, feet kick, and Miss Britton pushes her puckered lips right at the camera. These are gimmicks, and poor ones, since the third dimension does not seem to work near the camera. The image becomes blurred and Miss Britton develops another head. The only sensation that the audience feels is one of eyestrain. But equally poor are long distance shots, backgrounds seem that and artificial. The best effects come in the middle distance, although close...
...drunkenness and asked how he had accumulated a bank balance of more than $12,000 on a $50-a-week salary, he replied: "I live frugally, spending money only for meat, beer and whisky." Bare Essentials. In Batavia, Ohio, after jurors in a murder trial protested to Judge Harry Britton that his "no newspapers" ban was putting them hopelessly behind in their comic strips, the court instructed bailiffs to clip out the funnies and distribute them daily...
...viewer with the picture, Natural Vision was developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...