Word: reelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very efficiently-and comes prancing back for more, as insatiable for adventure as Don Quixote, as indestructible as the comic hero of an old one-reeler...
FLASH AND FILIGREE, by Terry Southern (204 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), recalls the two-reeler comedies of the silent movies, in which scenes would begin prosaically-with a tea party or dinner in a restaurant-and then break into paroxysms of action. This technique underlies this first novel by Texan Terry Southern, 34, who lives and writes in Switzerland. The book opens quietly at a posh Los Angeles clinic where Dr. Frederick Eichner, "world's foremost dermatologist," listens to the symptoms of a new patient, Felix Treevly. Six pages later the calm is shattered by a verbal and physical...
Traffic in Souls, a 1913 five-reeler about white slavery, was New York-born Harry Cohn's first picture. Returning 79 times its $5,700 cost, it taught him that 1) big money could be made from a small investment and 2) "the public wants sex." In 1920, with brother Jack and Joe Brandt, he founded the C.B.C. Company, forerunner of Columbia, on an initial outlay of $250. After the Cohns had bought out Brandt's interest in 1929, Harry took over as president...
Died. Norma Talmadge, 60, velvet-eyed star of the silent screen, best-known of three moviemaking sisters (the others: Constance, Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies...
...product is not as bad as it might be. Beaudine believes that "planning and being a jump ahead is what counts." He recalls an old two-reeler he was directing when an elderly actress dropped dead in mid-picture. Saddened but unsentimental, Bill stopped shooting only long enough to write her out of the script, with a subtitle reading: "Mrs. Murphy has gone to her relatives...