Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer who went to Great Falls to see the fair and left his tickets at home. Recalling that a neighbor was planning to come to town, the farmer got KFBB to ask the neighbor to go to the farmer's house, enter by way of a loose kitchen screen, and get the tickets out of the blue sugar bowl in the cupboard...
...idea for Lifeboat first occurred to Director Alfred Hitchcock. John Steinbeck wrote the idea into a story (still unpublished). With Hitchcock's help, Scripter Jo Swerling wrote the story into a screen play. The cinematic problems involved in keeping nine characters and their story dancing for two hours upon the pin point of one lifeboat were staggering. Result: a remarkably intelligent picture, almost totally devoid of emotion. Its characters are not so much real people, derelict upon a real sea, as they are a set of propositions in a theorem. Their story is an adroit allegory of world shipwreck...
...attack was Lieut. Commander L. W. A. Bennington, commander of a submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which screen the Singapore-Rangoon sea lanes, scouted the narrow (225 mi.) northern approaches of the Malacca Straits. He attacked and sank three large cargo vessels, sighted the cruiser and closed at full speed...
...never bothers to fill her own plate, but wanders among her guests, helping herself from anybody's plate that comes handy. In gossip-gathering she uses the same techniques. The men who run the studios and hand out the jobs read her faithfully and as faithfully react. (One screen writer who managed to get mentioned three times in Louella's column found himself abruptly raised from $500 a week...
...ordinary women. Besides her salary from Hearst, an estimated $750-$1,000 a week, she has been in a position to do nicely on the side, with Hearst getting one-third of the take. Radio used to bring her as high as $2,500 a week until the Screen Actors' Guild, thanks to James Cagney, made it impossible for stars to appear on Louella's programs with no reward other than Louella's love and unflagging loyalty-or her equally unflagging enmity if they said no. She got $50,000 from Warners for her appearance in Hollywood...