Word: screens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Department, who have for three months been exploring the field. They are described as having gathered news "from London, where television has failed dismally." Some member of your team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could have told him better. Television in England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality...
...plans to make in its Pinewood studios, begs the first question but answers the second. An uproarious, rough & tumble comedy about life before the turn of the Century in the gold camps of South Africa, it displays its star as one of the most likable characters on the screen, suggests that in failing to recognize her long ago, Hollywood has been guilty of serious nonfeasance...
...rival unions are the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 502) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 132). Armed like any workers with the tools of their trade, words, the screenwriters went to war before election. John Lee Mahin, president of Screen Playwrights Inc. advertised in Hollywood's Variety: "Any charge or implication that Screen Playwrights is a company union or in any way producer controlled is a lie. . . ." On another page in the same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman...
Next day, 342 eligible writers employed at Hollywood's 14 active studios solemnly cast their votes. Screen Writers Guild got 271 votes, a thumping majority at every studio. Result of the bickering: President Nichols promptly offered to "bury the hatchet," form a unified organization; President Mahin retorted that "the fight has just begun," promised to take it to the courts...
...ground. The telecast was not on the air but NBC engineers were watching the cabled tests in an RCA Building control room. While the camera was turning, the engineers were concerned with other parts of their reception apparatus. Death for the first time flashed across a television screen. But no one saw the passing picture...