Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind. Not that "Saboteur" is his best offering, but he has come back into his own again, back to the chase and all its whirls. The result is a tense two hours of entertainment dealt out with a freshness of approach and a relish of taste unusual in recent screen offerings...
Headlining a list of top-flight personalities from stage, screen, radio, and the United States Marines, Jinx Falkenburg, America's magazine cover girl and queen of the billboards, will lecture very, very informally and exchange quips with the Class of '45 at the Freshman Smoker on May 11, the Yardling Committee announced yesterday...
...Hays office, keeper of Hollywood's screen morals, not long ago forbade Republic, home of the Hollywood Western picture, to use the classic phrase, "Reach, buddy!", because it suggested excessive gunplay. Last fortnight the Hays office almost broke Republic's heart by scissoring the words, "Head for the border, boys!", from another Western: they intimated that the U.S.'s good neighbor, Mexico, was a haven for outlaws...
...Congress has always been loath to tangle too closely with The Old Man of RFC, and the Truman Committee was no exception. Not so the Post, Washington's most potent newspaper, which burst out with a red-hot editorial, pointing out that Mr. Jones was hiding behind a screen of blame on the NDAC, the British, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the President...
...Mille, outwardly charming and polished as an international banker, is actually a member of the fan-magazine audience that eats up his muscle-bound extravaganzas. He does all the acting for his cast on the set, and it is his performance, not theirs, that registers on the screen. Once his gift for spectacular effect was in tune with the times; today it is strictly from Dixie. But it is still boxoffice...