Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentines, among the most socially conservative of all Latins, had never seen anything like it. For them, a lady's place -and that went for a first lady-was in the home. Now Eva Duarte de Perón, handsome ex-screen star wife of President Juan Perón, was changing all that...
While the "drone" circles or dives at the end of its radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
Theater of Romance (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Somerset Maugham's The Letter, starring stage and screen star Miriam Hopkins...
...whose job it is to hawk this film to U.S. moviegoers shook their heads mournfully after casing the well-set-up, well-exposed Granger torso. If Cleopatra, they decided, had only given Apollodorus the suggestion of a royal high sign for a command performance-no matter how far off-screen-it would have given the picture Sex. However that may be, and however well it makes out as spectacle, Caesar and Cleopatra is vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy, beautifully played...