Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the possible exception of "Antony and Cleopatra," "Henry V" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays strains even the plastic Elizabethan stage beyond its limits. Oliver in his role of producer-director makes the most of the potentially wonderful freedom and mobility of motion pictures, thereby giving "Henry" a breadth of scope utterly unrealizable on the Elizabethan stage...
...while it looked as though the Hollywood girls would have to go it on their own. But last week, by a last-minute compromise, the grave jurisdictional issue was settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...
Henry V is one of the great experiences in the history of motion pictures. It is not, to be sure, the greatest: the creation of new dramatic poetry is more important than the recreation of old. For such new poetry, movies offer the richest opportunity since Shakespeare's time, and some of them have made inspired use of the chance. But Henry V is a major achievement-this perfect marriage of great dramatic poetry with the greatest contemporary medium for expressing...
Last week in Boston, the New England Council of Optometrists looked at a new type of lens which might eliminate these difficulties. Manhattan Eyeman Dr. William Feinbloom had developed a plastic, nonbreakable lens which rocks seesaw fashion with the motion of the eye, thus forestalls cornea irritation. The new lens is available in a dozen stock models, can be fitted to any eye in a few minutes, costs $100 less than the old type...
...giants themselves. Nominated to Spiegel's board of directors (and certain of election this month) were Donald M. Nelson, onetime Sears executive vice president, and Clement D. Ryan, onetime Ward president. Both men had fallen out with the giants. Don Nelson, now president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, after a headlined career as boss of the old War Production Board, and "Rox" Ryan now president of the Whitney Department Store, Spiegel subsidiary in San Diego, Calif., were expected to inject big-time know-how into Spiegel policies...