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Standard equipment for any cliff-hanging show includes metal shells to which actors repair when they are supposed to be below earth or water's surface, echo chambers, noise-making devices ranging from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character...
This, says Salter, is "one aspect of hypnosis which, so far, has been untouched by modern experimental techniques." No one can be hypnotized against his will. If he is not cooperative or at least open-minded, the hypnotist's suggestions break like seas on a cliff. The oftener he is hypnotized, the easier the trances return. Soon he can entrance himself, perhaps by reciting a simple patter: I feel very comfortable. My arms are so relaxed. My feet feel very relaxed and heavy. I feel so very comfortable and relaxed. My whole body feels comfortable and relaxed. I just...
Pearl White and Ruth Roland are dead. But on the books of three U.S. cinemakers (Republic, Universal, Columbia) To Be Continued is still doing important business. Any one of these companies' dozen yearly serials (trade name: cliff hangers) is likely to gross a million dollars. The Lone Ranger, made three years ago for $325,000, grossed over $1,250,000-a better return than most feature pictures bring...
Editor Sax Bradford went to South America. To get out the new tabloid, Sports Editor Cliff Harrison was made editor. On its first day as a tabloid the Star gained 10,000 readers, lost only 800 of them the second, has gained steadily since-from...
This week 74-year-old Painter Leigh gave Manhattan gallerygoers a taste of nature. His 14 paintings and assorted sketches and drawings (at the Grand Central Galleries) depicted glowing Western canyons, Indian cliff dwellings, stampeding horses, luridly lit desert dawns and sunsets. Fifty-Seventh Street's sophisticates thought they looked as corny as old-fashioned magazine covers, but had to admit that few living artists could paint a prancing steed or a frightened herd of mountain goats as realistically as William Robinson Leigh...