Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audacity or Smoke Screen? A report from Le Havre to the Swiss Tribune de Genève last week said that German reconnaissance over England had led to this conclusion: "We are on the eve of an English attempt of unsuspected audacity." Considering the source and the channels, this message could mean one of two opposites: 1) the British were preparing an invasion force; 2) they or the Germans were setting up a smoke screen. Either could be true...
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 around the bare stage...
Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...
...either the best or the worst picture of the year. Its making cost $2,500,000. Its two young stars, full-breasted Jane Russell and slim Jack Buetel, had been ballyhooed to magazine cover fame for two years-and yet the U.S. had never seen them on the screen. Howard Hughes, the eccentric designer-aviator-producer, personally directed the picture and surrounded it with such provoking secrecy that not even the actors in it were allowed to see the finished product. Last fortnight The Outlaw had its premiere. What Hughes apparently had for his pains: a strong candidate...
...that way. Payne is in his element when he gets into the woods. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Hollywood and Caesar Romero can portray the species. Between the cavortings of these over-anxious characters, the screen is crammed with dancer John on the run and partner Betty, oh-so undecided, right in front...