Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bull's-Eye. Ghormley's first objective was soon announced. It was Tulagi, one of the best harbors in the Solomons, which the Jap had held since early June for his Indies defensive screen and for a jump-off place if he should decide to head south across the Australian supply line again...
...plot such as this gives Orson Welles much opportunity to present emotion on the screen, to revel in lights and shadows. He does so unrelentingly. The result is that the characters and the situations are never quite believable because of over-dramatization. Like a child with a new toy, Orson Welles uses the new technical discoveries beyond the point of satiation. He has not yet realized that many things are best said simply...
...pretty when you became a Cornell or a Fontaine. We're still rather skeptical, but very much in spite of the New England Repertory Company and its current revival of "The Vinegar Tree." As an evening's entertainment, this surpasses almost anything now available on the local stage and screen...
...find out how well seduction had worked, they sampled public opinion by flashing the faces of various notables on cinema screens. A cinema audience at Blood and Sand was startled when the comely faces of Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth were snatched off the screen and a portrait of the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeared. After a bewildered moment, the audience applauded. When the face of Chiang Kai-shek appeared, the Chinese went wild with joy. Next, Puppet Wang. No go. Boos and hisses...
...addition, pictures will be shown on the screen depicting the drama of a Russia at war: war-plays, performances for the soldiers at the front, the latest productions in the Soviet theatres, the maintenance of morale, the loyalty of the Soviet people to their country, and their unity in their war for liberation...