Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freddie Bartholomew is precise-dictioned and a little more human than usual during the few moments he is on the screen; from then on Tyrone Power (Freddie grown up) continues the adventures of Jonathan Blake. Power is adequate to the part but exhibits a slight inclination toward striking poses. Had it not been for careful directing, he might have carried this tendency too far. Madeleine Carroll makes a lovely, sympathetic heroine...
...Walter Gropius has architecture in his blood. His great uncle was an architect. His father was a member of the Berlin Building Commission. Educated at technical schools in Berlin and Munich, he built his first houses in 1906, by 1910 had already designed an undecorated factory with great screen walls of windows, later a standard practice in the International Style. He was passionately interested in low-cost housing and an architecture that would need to borrow nothing from traditional styles. When the War came, he fought in the Imperial Army, and it was not until after the Armistice that...
...Suits passed a brilliant arc between two electrodes of a welding torch in an atmosphere of hydrogen. This was magnified and projected in color on a frosted glass screen. The engineers saw the images of the electrodes three inches apart, with the broad, vivid flow of the arc two inches wide. Then Dr. Suits produced an arc in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The arc band was pale, thin. But when he stepped up the nitrogen pressure to 1,200 Ib. per sq. in., the arc thickened and brightened until it was indistinguishable from that produced in hydrogen...
...scanned from top to bottom in a series of close-packed horizontal lines. The greater the number of lines, the clearer the picture. Last week RCA-Victor announced it was upping its "definition" from 343 lines to 441. This means that 30% clearer images can be had on a screen the same size as before, or that pictures of the same clarity as before can be had on a screen 30% larger...
...Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation of A Doctor's Diary is the villainy of Dr. Ludlow (Sidney Blackmer) who postpones an operation on a boy violinist to attend to a rich client. Because of the delay the fiddler loses the use of his playing arm. Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent) threatens...