Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life insurance policy and a $100,000 trust fund, finally settled for $900 cash-after talk of setting up a trust fund was called a "futile gesture," because the onetime "boy wonder" was some $65,000 in the red despite his last year's screen and radio take...
...Headlong "Bull" Halsey had forged a powerful weapon in the Solomons, had wielded it with skill, daring, many sulfurous asides (a public-relations officer had finally been assigned to clean up his bullish predictions, screen his football-field bombast). Now once again he would have a chance to forge a weapon, drive it to the heart of the Japanese empire...
...large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing embrace of a zoo gorilla. As played by Louis Wolheim on the stage, the Ape thrilled audiences and even critics out of their wits. As played by William Bendix on the screen, he goes through a great many of the same motions without ever getting anywhere or meaning very much...
...bums and blasts his way through a rudderless melodrama. Deprived of his ferocious eloquence, thanks doubtless to censorship, he talks like a tough guy who is trying not to shock his grandmother. Deprived of his tragic ending, he becomes, in retrospect, a not very convincing sailor ashore. Unfortunately, his screen creators have tried to compensate for these deficiencies by making him funny...
When the curtain rises at the Cambridge Summer Theatre on Monday night, the audience will be presented with the world premiere of the sophisticated new farce comedy, "A Goose for the Gander" by Harold Kennedy. Sharing the spotlight will be Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes, both of stage and screen fame...