Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next morning the Fleet spotted a Japanese reconnaissance plane, which had unquestionably spotted the Fleet. Admiral Phillips paid his respect to this fact by altering his course. But he decided not to ask the R.A.F. for an air screen because he considered it more important to keep wireless silence...
...Love" represents the average Frenchman's knowledge of that all important prerequisite to life, Paris has been greatly over-rated. Seductive as Danielle Darrieux may have been in her past appearances on the American screen, she displays nothing in this performance that cannot be found on any page of the Sears, Rocbuck catalogue, while that famous rake, Albert Prejcan, teaches her nothing which the Rover Boys did not known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided...
Successful plays aren't often transformed into successful motion pictures without a somewhat drastic application of the "movie technique." An exception was "Night Must Fall," which three or four years ago was lifted almost bodily from the stage to the screen, and was equally effective in its new medium. Following closely in this tradition is "Ladies in Retirement," last year's number one Broadway mystery drama, and one of this season's first-rate cinema thrillers...
...Lupino, proving again that she ranks among the screen's top-flight actresses, gives a restrained and intelligent performance as the murderess who kills her benefactress in order to provide a home for her two helpless sisters. Louis Hayward is excellent as her conniving nephew. And each of the supporting roles is masterfully handled, with an attention to detail that fills every scene with an unmatched intensity and impact...
Indomitable Dr. Thomas made the trustees of Johns Hopkins admit her by a special vote to their graduate Greek Department. Later she stormed her way into the Universities of Leipzig (where, as the only woman, she had to sit behind a screen at lectures) and Gottingen; then, refused a Ph.D., went to Zurich to get one. She took charge of Bryn Mawr in 1894, ten years after its founding, ran it with an iron hand until...