Word: celluloid
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...funny because he throws rocks at little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Hyman Kaplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much spontancous than any of the slightly forced travelogue series...
...rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...
...which are suspended from the ceiling by pulleys and counterweights in such a way that they can be turned, lowered and photographed from any angle. Maps in the new global perspective so important in air and naval strategy can then be traced from the photos ... (3) a library of celluloid stencils -bomb splashes, flags, jeeps, sinking ships (see below). This fascinating collection of tiny symbols saves Chapin and his staff hours of tedious work by making it unnecessary to draw the same symbols over again week after week...
...since cameras swept the Charles last spring and immortalized the Varsity crew on celluloid, has Harvard gone Hollywood, but technicians, photographers and directors have just picked up paraphernelia after completing a short film for RKO on the Harvard Chaplain school. Second in a "This is America" series, the short will depict the work of the average chaplain...
...student who murders because he thinks he is above the laws of man, follows the novel more religiously than its companion piece. Only minor characters and actions are omitted as the French production, a morbid thriller from the first scene, is forced to compress pages of introspection into mere celluloid suggestion. The fiery-eyed Roskalnikov is forced to break down and confess his act under the shrewd handling of detective Porphyr, excellently portrayed by Harry Baur, and his prostitute-turned-saint follows him to Siberia. Pierre Blanchar, who plays Roskalnikov, may be a little too hammy in his actions...