Word: screen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria Swanson, 50, high-styled, onetime queen of the silent screen, had not yet faded from the Hollywood scene; she was back to act in a picture called Sunset Boulevard, her first movie in eight years. Her new role: a fading queen of the silent screen...
...uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman in the living room...
...London last week, Britain's Sco-phony, Ltd. exhibited a new, lightweight (35 lbs.), antennaless TV receiver which can be moved from room to room and plugged into an electric socket. The set has a 7½-by-6-in. screen and retails for ?55 ($220). For an antenna the set uses the electric wiring system of the house. A cylindrical condenser is attached to the power cord to reduce interference. A booster inside the set steps up the sound and TV signals to the necessary strength. An aerial can be attached in areas of high interference...
...filled with sounds of wind and surf. The trade calls this device Multi-Sound and it is when the wind is screaming the loudest, and everyone is wondering what has become of the fresh air, that Jenny appears for the last time. For some obscure reason, an extra large screen called Cycloramic Screen is teamed with Multi-Sound; given a few more idea men an the studio might have brought forth a Time Machine. A story about a timeless girl doesn't bring forth, ipso facto, a timeless picture and another device is needed to make it a classic...
...teacher in America and on the candy-coated moralities daily gushing forth from the radio. Nothing is said, or shown, on these subjects, or any other in the film, that must not have occurred to any thoughtful person, but it is vicariously satisfying to hear them from the silver screen at long last. The strongest propaganda medium in the world has been here put to good...