Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last July James M. Cain, specialist in fast-moving novels like "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," took time out from sex and murder and harnessed his vigorous style to a proposal for an American Authors' Authority. Published in the Screen Writer, monthly mouthpiece of the Screen Writers' Guild, the proposal has been the cause of red scares and herrings galore. A glance at Cain's opposition, which includes Westbrook Pegler, the Chicago Tribune, and a newly formed group of writers headed by the oldest of the old guard, John Erskine and Louis Bromfield, indicates a weak base...
...such as the New York court ruling from botching up the writers' works. Cain's ebullience overboiled when he thought of financing these functions by levies on publishers and theatrical and movie producers, and of eventually taxing them enough to provide a minimum yearly salary for writers. But the Screen Writers' Guild, an organization whose "communist leadership" is mythical, recently decided to rewrite the proposal "in better form" and more to the taste of publishers and producers. This should silence those who holler "Petrillo" whenever they hear of the Authority...
...benefit of all on-lookers, but the trays are piled up, carried to the kitchen, and emptied there in private by the help. An alternate to this system would be to provide one exit for all Union diners, who would dump their trays on a table separated by a screen from incoming lines. This could be done by having the line coming in through the Quincy Street entrance go along the food tables in the opposite direction to the one traveled now, while all students leave via Quincy Street, using the present dumping grounds...
...routine called Puttin' on the Ritz, one dazzling scene in Blue Skies where trick photography fills the screen with a full chorus of fast-stepping Astaires, will not dim his reputation as a hell of a dancer. The hardest of four numbers he designed for the picture, it took him five weeks of what he calls "backbreaking physical work...
Alan Ladd, second only to Humphrey Bogart in consecutive hours of gun toting on the screen, tensely blows up tunnels, sends coded radio messages, and outwits the gestapo for Uncle Sam in "O.S.S." Based on actual events and produced under government supervision, Ladd's efforts as a spy in France just before and after the Normandy invasion generate a steady, if low, level of interest...