Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under a screen of heavy rains and thick fogs, the German Army pushed deep into Belgium. It was too much for blood & guts alone...
Filmed in London, this screen version of Louis Golding's novel (TIME, July 24, 1939) is in some respects as hammily insistent on wringing the last drop of emotion out of the audience as East Lynne or The Old Curiosity Shop. But since history has made its horrors real, and the story is intelligently produced and extremely well played, it is one of the most affecting of anti-Fascist screen melodramas. Stage Veteran Felix Aylmer turns in such a mellow performance as the fragile, intrepid old man that it is easy to forgive him for visibly licking his chops...
...racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail." Hutchins recommended nation-wide examinations to screen out veterans who cannot succeed in or profit by college, and a plan to stimulate the colleges' discrimination and alertness by making them feet the bill for each of their veteran students...
...Orestes H. Caldwell, editor of Electronic Industries, was fiddling with his short-wave radio. It seemed to be afflicted with a peculiar kind of staccato static. He turned on his television set, found it similarly affected, the interference appearing as a series of rapid black & white flashes on the screen...
...newald Altar Screen was important enough to be mentioned in the Versailles Treaty: the Germans tried to keep it in Munich after the war, but the peacemakers of 1919 ordered its return to Alsace. Between wars, it was kept in the Colmar Museum. Last week, when the bare facts of Captain Ross's discovery first became known, nobody knew or even tried to guess why the Nazis left such a treasure behind when they were being pushed out of Alsace...