Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of the Kamikaze Corps was already added that of the Jinrai (piloted buzz-bombs) and the Giretsu (airborne saboteurs). Ozawa would go further: he would take surface ships, rig them for self-destruction, then -if the Kamikaze squadrons could blast a way through the "picket line" (outer naval screen)-he would send the ships in to try "body-crashing" tactics against major U.S. fleet units...
Many of radio's most familiar shop words (cue, gag, ad lib) are hand-me-downs from its elder cousins, the stage and screen. But radio now fits so snugly into a few that they seem custom-made. Last week Mutual published a dictionary of 200-odd broadcasting terms. Sample radioese...
Wonder Man (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is a temperate enough description of Danny Kaye in his second full-length movie. Barring Kaye, and the pretty hoof-&-mouthing of the flea-sized, dainty screen newcomer Vera-Ellen, and some sure laughs furnished by S. Z. Sakall as a delicatessen storekeeper, the picture is about as short on drive, sparkle and resourcefulness as a Sam Goldwyn production can be. But fortunately, there is no such thing as barring Danny Kaye. He is a one-man show and, at his frequent best, a howling good...
Whatever may be said in the continuing battle of words of stage vs. screen, "Without Love," Phillip Barry's play of a few years back, has become as a motion picture far more entertaining fare than much of what clutters up the Shubert chain today...
Donald Ogden Stewart, who did "The Philadelphia Story," was the obvious choice for screen-play duties, and he has done what most screen-writers are afraid to do: on celluloid, "Without Love" is not just a photographic reproduction of a stage play. Advantage is made of the medium to an enormously greater extent than in, say, "Claudia." Which is as it should...