Word: screen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tourists: "A number of hotels already have made television installations. Here . . . the family group is sometimes discovered intact, mesmerized in front of the screen on their first trip to see the grandeurs of a large city, with only room service to turn to for sustenance...
...afternoon last week, Porter neatly packed his three bags. In one he put his will, written in the hotel room four days before and naming Mrs. Patterson's housekeeper his executrix. He laid his hat, watch and glasses on the dresser. Shortly afterwards, his body crashed through the screen of an open window of his room and landed on the sidewalk, six floors below...
...Lafayette, not far away, Purdue's Boilermakers were practicing in secret last week behind a high canvas screen. Businesslike Coach Stu Holcomb, who had been an assistant to Earl Blaik at West Point in the Davis-Blanchard heyday, had them hustling. He got the Boilermakers out on the practice field at an ungentlemanly 8:30 a.m., needled them with his impatient...
Private Life of an Actor (Siritzky International) is the first film made by Sacha Guitry, France's scampish old do-it-all of stage & screen, since he was cleared of charges of collaborating with the Nazis. The movie was mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence...
This Hitchcock stunt also required of the actors a sustained discipline that is fairly new to the screen. The result is quite exciting. Continuous action builds a tension all its own. The players, too, are keyed unusually high by the intensity and interest of trying something new, so that, although their performances are elementary, they have a vividness and vitality which are rare in current movies...