Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertainment. He is still one of Hollywood's most talented moviemakers. Actor James Stewart, who worked his way up without ballyhoo from buck private to Air Forces colonel (and bomber-wing commander), has also boosted his rank as an actor. Having put aside his aggressively boyish, aw-shucks screen mannerisms, Stewart's first postwar performance is certain to be eyed respectfully by the people who award annual statuettes for superior acting...
...Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, gagged up by Edgar Bergen & little friend...
...Astaire musicals in town displaying his terpsichorean felicity and his personal case of manner at their characteristic best. That "Top Hat" bases a mounting series of un-excruciating events on a carefully mistaken identity and calls it a story matters little. Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on a Boston screen, and they sing Irving Berlin songs and dance to them, and there isn't slightest him of a neurosis or psychoanalyst in the whole picture...
Captain Saul Mariaschin had 15 points for his evening's work, but the Varsity floor leader, too, was slightly off form. When Gantt left the game because of illness, the Crimson offense deteriorated, and the screen plays which had set up earlier Harvard baskets failed to click. In the second half, the Varsity relied almost entirely on the individual abilities of Mariaschin and Hauptfuhrer in their patented specialities...
Mysteriously billed as the rider, "A Scandal in Paris" is a far more satisfactory show, and, in the absence of a cartoon, is the only obstacle between the U.T. patrons and three hours of fitful slumber. Arthur Pressburg's screen adaptation of the escapades of Francois Vidoque, 19th century lover and second story man extraordinaire, does not wallow in the mire of an uncoordinated plot, hopefully punctuated with gags, but relies on well developed comedy of situation in an interesting and smoothly flowing story. Ably supported by Akim Tamiroff, handsome George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between...