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...shot followed by a scream of mortal pain! War in Europe? No, merely a suipeshooter on the second floor of Massachusetts Hall taking potshots at passers-by and getting one bullseye...
...Eicken gave Hitler a small amount of morphine as a sedative the Chancellor slept for 14 hours. "I was quite concerned" . . . said the physician. After the operation, he continued, "I warned him to speak softly for a few days, and against letting his emotions lead him to shout and scream loudly. ... He admitted he had been told that before, but forgot himself during a speech...
...sound effects this time, Poet MacLeish has added to his impelling verse imperative noises. A woman sings a scale and the scale is parodied by the warning siren, the whine of the raiding planes. It is echoed in a boy's voice calling, is converted into an agonized scream to end the play. Oddity of Air Raid is that, in spite of the fact that the situation is a straight projection of last month's Czechoslovakian crisis, when a man listened for war at his loudspeaker like a frightened bellboy at a murderer's keyhole, prescient Poet...
...when each television station needs a slice of the radio spectrum six times as big as the total band of kilocycles now occupied by all U.S. broadcasting stations. This idea of an ultra-high-frequency transmitter which needs an even larger slice of the radio spectrum should make FCCommissioners scream for aspirin...
Came the dress rehearsal. Luckily (at Wood's suggestion, I think) the audience was small. Only Wood, Leslie Howard, Producer Gilbert Miller and I knew what was coming. A scream from the blackened stage indicated a time relapse of 145 years. The Wood subaudible note was "sounded," or more accurately, turned on. I was reminded years later of the effect by the sound from the bowels of the earth that yet was no sound, that preceded the big shock of the Los Angeles earthquake. The glass in every chandelier in the old Lyric commenced to tinkle softly, the opaque...