Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born stage & screen specialist at portraying conspiratorial smoothies, got back from a trip to Europe, confirmed reports that he had seen through the disguise of a Nazi actor hiding out in Hof-Gastein, Austria, and turned him in to Army Intelligence. Watch on the Rhine's anti-Nazi hero was brimful of worry: "The mountains are full of SS men. . . . They are laughing at our demobilization. . . . We are suckers...
Beyond television broadcasting, the new tube has fascinating possibilities. Some are military. Perched in the nose of a pilotless bomber, the tube could watch the terrain below, projecting what it sees on a screen in a guiding airplane many miles behind. By watching the screen, an operator who remains in faraway safety could steer the bomber cross-country by remote control...
There are also various peacetime uses. The tube's unsleeping eye can watch a railroad yard, a traffic bottleneck or an industrial process, reporting what it sees to a distant screen. Since it is non-human and expendable, it can be stationed in dangerous places (e.g., near an atomic explosion). Properly set up, it can see without being seen. According to rumor, the FBI has already put in an order for a round dozen...
Married. Miriam Hopkins, 40, stage & screen (Becky Sharp) star; and Ray mond B. Brock, 32 wartime Balkan correspondent of the New York Times; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Alexandria, Va. Her third husband was Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director (Mayerling, Tovarich...
Last week Author Isherwood finished work for Warner Bros, on screen versions of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, and his good friend Somerset Maugham's Up at the Villa. Larry, youthful hero of Maugham's best-selling The Razor's Edge, is.said to be modeled on Isherwood. He is now at work on a novel about physically and spiritually "displaced persons...