Word: screens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week the 1,650-ton Spanish Loyalist destroyer Jose Luis Diez got up steam, weighed anchor, laid down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade...
...that the guest list to the French Government's banquet for the visiting Nazi diplomats did not include the names of Jean Zay, Minister of National Education, and Georges Mandel, Minister of Colonies, both Jews. Minister of Marine Cesar Campinchi, denouncing the pact as a "smoke-screen," returned his invitation...
...Scrooge, Marley, Cratchits and Christmas spirit. Consequently, while A Christmas Carol is doubtless an invaluable addition to holiday lists of worth-while pictures for juvenile audiences, it cannot be recommended unreservedly to adults-unless to those who feel that the mere transposition of such a classic to the Hollywood screen constitutes an excuse for general hosannas...
...Brother Rat" and "Ferdinand the Bull" are currently fighting for honors at the University, with "Torchy Gets Her Man" a poor third. For those who have not seen "Brother Rat" on the stage, the screen version is top notch entertainment; for those who have, the movie is merely amusing. The lines are good, the plot, based on the complexities of life at the Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades...
...slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo a vertical ribbon of cold green light vibrates on the screen, sways against a violet background. Drum beats appear as expanding dark blobs and are wiped away. A piano solo sprinkles the screen with mercurial, pearly beads...