Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alia Nazimova, 66. Russian-born actress who specialized in Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler) and Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), onetime silent screen glamor girl (Salome), lately featured in character roles (Since You Went Away); of coronary thrombosis; in Hollywood...
Along Long Island's Jones Beach rolled a truck, laying a curtain of thick white fog like a smoke screen. Within a few minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...
This spectacular show was staged last week to demonstrate one of the most promising methods yet found for applying the wonder insecticide, DDT. The Todd Shipyards had rigged up an insect-killing version of its Army & Navy smoke-screen generator. The contraption sprays a dry, odorless, stainless cloud of fine oil particles containing a 5% solution of DDT. The fog disappears in a few minutes, leaving a deposit of DDT crystals on everything it touches...
...story of family relations and frustrated love, Mrs. Davenport's story makes first-rate screen material. The handling of the industrial warfare, however, leaves something to be desired. Though the human tragedy involved is played to the hilt, not enough attention is given to the real issues involved, the issue of men versus capital, the fight of American labor to gain decent working conditions in heavy industry. But MGM is to be commended for the lack of bias in its presentation, even though it has failed to get at the heart of the warfare...
Despite an almost flawless performance by Actor Cummings and the stylishly bedizened beauty of Newcomer Lizabeth Scott, all this tragic extra footage seems mainly designed to display the virtuosity of Producer Hal Wallis' latest entry in the screen glamor sweepstakes...