Word: screens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, sleepy-eyed, sickly Mohammed Abdul-Wahab, Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...
...Tellegen as well as the Propaganda Minister of Germany is gimpy little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. His carryings-on with the actresses on whom he must pass before they may appear on the German stage or screen are a joke as well as a scandal in the upper circles of Naziland...
...journal Nature which reached the U. S. last week was a picture taken by Professor L. C. Martin of London's Imperial College which showed a germ called Micrococcus flavus magnified 16,000 times. Last week in Richmond, Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Manufacturing Co. showed fluorescent-screen projections, made with his electron microscope, of tungsten crystals in which the molecules themselves could be distinguished in the molecular structure...
Joan Crawford (Sun. 7:30 p. m. CBS), Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Reginald Gardiner, Ralph Morgan, Mitchell Leisen, Morrie Ryskind contribute their services to the first program of Gulf Oil Corp.'s series of Screen Actors' Guild benefits...
...Blondie," a screen adaptation of the famous newspaper comic strip, bogs down in occasional nauseating bits of slushy sentimentality, but the antics of Dagwood and Baby Dumpling generally prove amusing...