Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head, and had murmured: "I think I'm hit, will you look?" Now he lay on the beach. A Jap ran out of a coconut-log blockhouse into which Marines were tossing dynamite. As he emerged a Marine flamethrower engulfed him. The Jap flared like a piece of celluloid. He died before the bullets in his cartridge belt finished exploding 60 seconds later...
...girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest of ?297-$1,188) on a trip to Vienna. She wants to hear The Blue Danube "played at the source." Aboard the Channel packet she meets a celluloid-collared washing-machine inventor from Yorkshire with plenty of British brass and some neolithic French and German ("Swy tay, bitta").* The flying Yorkshireman deserts her for a floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes...
...century in & out of medicine shows, burlesque, vaudeville, Howard made the big time in Joe Cook's Rain Or Shine in 1928, hit $1,100 a week in Ziegfeld's Smiles, and then went to Hollywood with Shelton to store some of their deadpan senselessness in celluloid. Howard claims that "radio made a bum out of me" and he is reconciled to it. The hours are wonderful; he has to work only a couple of days a week; and for his unsophisticated radio audience there is no need to think up new material...
...screen at least. It is, however, so much better than the scenario about commandos which the boys on the outskirts of Los Angeles have been grinding out lately, with a carbon under it for the next commando picture, that it, becomes a shining example of fine celluloid drama...
Watch on the Rhine (Warner) is Lillian Hellman's successful anti-Nazi play without a Nazi in it,* transferred almost bodily to celluloid. That play and film are alike as two swastikas is small wonder...