Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning Lieut, (j.g.) Marshall C. Freerks of Cuyuna, Minn, hit pay dirt. Easing through a rift in the overcast he popped out over a Jap task force, two carriers, cruisers, a screen of destroyers. Ducking in & out of the overcast, he radioed for help. Another PBY led Army Flying Fortresses and Marauders to the spot. They blasted through the fog, got a probable hit on one of the carriers...
...glamor girl was Hollywood's woman of the year; she was, in fact, lovable, ladylike Mrs. Miniver. To her and hers went six Academy Awards: 1) best picture of 1942, 2) best written screen play, 3) best black-&-white cinematography, 4) best director, William Wyler (now an Air Forces major on duty in England), 5) best actress, Greer Garson (as Mrs. M.), 6) best supporting actress, Teresa Wright. Green-eyed, feather-haired Greer Garson clutched her gold-painted plastic Oscar and silently wept. "This is the most wonderful thing. . . . I feel just like Alice in Wonderland." Other Oscars...
...Theater managers found audiences the rowdiest in their memory: they howled, hissed and booed at pictures, demanded Westerns, carved their initials on seats, sometimes even fired buckshot at the screen. War workers brought alarm clocks, set them to go off when they had to leave for work...
...film's most exciting shots are those of air battles. At the Front has some of the most detailed closeups of attacking planes yet seen on the screen. It shows low-level enemy attacks so close that bombs can be seen falling from the bomb bays. Again & again enemy planes, machine guns spitting, dive head on at the camera. The camera shows the results: Allied trucks flaring up in brilliant orange and red flame, wounded soldiers being picked up, men milling in shock...
Sunday afternoon another big jam session will be held, this time in Symphony Hall. You needn't be worried too much about the acoustics, as they have a fine public address system with plenty of mikes. In addition a screen will be erected behind the performers so that the music won't echo on the bars stage...