Word: screens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponsors the games KQV was pirating. In Federal district court, KQV, still brash, explained that it had rented space in a building overlooking the ball park, argued that it had a perfect right to broadcast what it saw from its own property. Promptly the Pirates raised a canvas screen to shut off KQV's knothole. To plug the knothole tight, last week Judge F. P. Schoonmaker ruled that the club has a property right in broadcasts of its games, issued a preliminary injunction against KQV's broadcast peepshow...
Directors, unlike producers, are rarely graduates of the cloak-&-suit trade. They are more apt to be onetime actors, writers, theatre directors or assistant cameramen. The career of the cinema's current No. 1, better story material than some of the screen plays he has worked on, provides a fair example...
...powerful illusion, Hollywood has shown no enthusiasm for three-dimensional pictures. Some time ago it occurred to an inventive cinema cameraman named Joseph Valentine that something simpler might be tried, a suggestion of roundness and solidity although not an actual third dimension -something that would make characters on the screen less flat than animated pancakes. He looked for a simple way to achieve this effect, last week announced to the press that he had succeeded...
...like Actors' Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Actors, Burlesque Artists Association, etc., is a branch of Associated Actors and Artistes of America. Although Comedian Cantor is A. F. R. A.'s head man, the contract was negotiated and signed by Executive Secretary Emily Holt, Associate Secretary & Treasurer George Heller. A. F. R. A. has agreements with other A. A. A. A. branches by which, for instance, Equity members may also become A. F. R. A. members by paying half A. F. R. A. initiation fee, half dues...
...technology training school. Behind its garish façade it has distinguished advisers -Inventors Dr. Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, Philo Taylor Farnsworth. M. I. T. treasurer is Socialite Sam Batchelder, onetime Harvard football and hockey star. The Institute built its own television equipment, uses a 9 in. by 12 in.-screen English receiver manufactured by Baird Television Ltd. Originally intended for student demonstrations the equipment drew so many curious visitors to the school's converted automobile showroom that M. I. T. President Porter Henderson Evans last week arranged regularly scheduled evening performances, obtained a Boston theatre license, charged admission (adults...