Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to view the better offerings of seasons past, and gives the theatre a healthy excuse to get away from the double feature diet. "Kings Row," the feature on the bill tonight, is Warner's adaptation of Henry Bellaman's novel of the frustrated nineties. A suicide per reel in the slower portions, and a neurosis per minute in the more exciting sequences raise the audience to the fast tempo which the picture maintains throughout...
...correspondent Johnny Davis, his kid brother, and their little blonde companion, also a newspaper worker, who takes turns in engaging herself with the Davis boys in all sort of friendly positions. The scene moves from New York to Hanoi with the greatest of ease, Gable busses Turner in every reel, the Filipinos and Yanks hold off Mr. Moto in an epic struggle, and everybody is happy...
...Supermaniacs, whose wild devotion to their Man of Steel is a wacky U.S. phenomenon, radio had good news last week. They have devoured Superman in the comics, goggled at him in one-reel movies, have even got him on the air. But all they heard were transcribed programs. Now they can hear Superman in person on programs for which Manhattan's WOR foots the bill...
Harvard came through with social aids before the first week was up. PBH teas made the introductions, and then Mem Hall dances helped along the handful of girls that got to them. Meanwhile the famous Summer School lectures began to reel off, with star history lecturer Hans Kohn leading...
...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...