Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katherine Hepburn rarely allows herself to be publicly subdued by anything or anybody. But Hepburn fans can experience the rare treat of seeing MGM's Dorothy Thompson subdued and emotionally thrashed into a passionately feminine woman, or at least a woman, on the U.T. review night screen tonight. In "Woman of The Year" nighty Katie starts as 1941's world-beater, a combination Luce and D.T., but ends most pleasantly as a love-stricken, even cooing bride...
...which looked down on those reports was itself like a battlefield. Everything about it was big, broad, strong. The weather had been on it, and personal suffering behind it. The huge mouth looked like command, and above it, the nose was pugnacious. The eyes were aggressive. They and their screen of brow above the weariness below were as impressive and busy-looking as a couple of task forces. The face, as it read the reports, was thoughtful...
Hero of the film will be Reverend Gilbert V. Hartke of Catholic University who heads the drama department there. No stranger to the silver screen. Reverend Hartke made his dobut playing juvenile roles for the now defunct Essanay Film Company...
Fans cheered and applauded Flynn's first appearance on the screen. Later, when he murmured dreamily of the Girl Back Home, they gave the wolf cry-a long-drawn woooo-woooo-ooo! When Flynn offered a fellow pilot "a few good telephone numbers," the house broke into a dionysiad of whistles, wolf calls, boos, belly laughter. This was not only true of San Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion-from the Desperate Journey trailer...
Dana, who has spent much time in the Soviet Union during the last 15 years, is the author of many articles on the Russian Theatre and of a "Handbook on Soviet Drama." In this lecture he will show on the screen some pictures of the latest Russian war posters and scenes from the latest Russian war plays and films...