Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Brian Aherne, 43, flamboyant British-born stage & screen actor, lately ETO-touring in a melodramatized Barretts of Wimpole Street; and Eleanor de Liagre Labrot, 33, socialite sister of Broadway Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.; both for the second time (his first: Joan Fontaine); at Sneden Landing...
Tars and Spars (Columbia) introduces to the screen a likable blond zany named Sid Caesar. This otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood...
Last week, Emperor Hirohito, on a dais in front of a gold-leaf screen, facing 35 morning-coated members of the Imperial Household, heard a chorus singsong through five winning poems in the annual Imperial Poetry Party...
...Palace, now General Hodge's residence. They ate turkey and trimmings, scowled but did not speak. After dinner the Americans entertained them with unaccountable selections from a full library of modern films. The feature was Sunbonnet Sue, a sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final flicker, the Russians filed silently...
...list of documentaries (over 100) ever assembled. The films range from early newsreels and the first documentary masterpieces (like Robert Flaherty's 24-year-old Nanook of the North} to Walt Disney's wartime educational films and samples of the Army and Navy's shrewd Screen Magazine...