Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of fact, Sim's huge talent has been kept hidden too long by the even larger reputation of Alec Guinness. There is no need for any rivalry here. While Guinness is the acknowledged master of underplayed comedy, no one should dispute Sim's title as the king of the hams. Especially in a situation where everyone else plays it straight, Sim is tremendously funny...
Though played on a larger stage, High Treason is not quite so dynamic as Seven Days to Noon. The screenplay sometimes bogs down in low melodrama, and the pace lags now & then for wordy political digressions. But in Boulting's camera-wise direction the picture mostly crackles with pseudo-documentary excitement. The spectacular climax, as the saboteurs try to take over massive Battersea power station, was filmed at the actual locale among a futuristic welter of catwalks, dynamos and generating equipment. And Director Boulting gives the fanciful plot a realistic look with the odd British types who get tangled...
Being constructed now is a new console, or control panel, to take care of larger coverage. Over the summer WMIT and WRRB will be officially attached by a special telephone line which will relay exchanged programs Tech has lines to local auditoriums, and Radcliffe plans to receive programs called "remotes" relayed through WMIT from these sources. WRRB eventually hopes to have its own lines for remotes...
Next year should be different, for Tech and Radcliffe have ambitious plans. The Annex station will move into new, larger quarters in the Holmes Hall basement, across the hall from the Cliffe music library. Studies will be twice the size of the present rooms. The control room will be flanked by two broadcasting studies, one of which could be used for "live" programs...
Desks and filing cabinets will replace pianos in two fourth floor Agassiz rooms, while the present NSA book exchange spot will probably house official club records. NSA is considering moving its book stacks to a larger room in the Agassiz basement...