Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the realization dawns that the acme of musical perfection in the four-beat tempo is hardly a deliciously impeccable saxophone section. But potentially there are other ways of putting jazz in a more satisfactory light with the general public, particularly through the medium of the theatre and the screen...
...agree they are sufficiently rounded to be hailed the modern counterparts of Lady Macbeth. We do admit they make entertaining movie-copy, and--it may be added--plenty of it. In the same vogue are "The Little Foxes," three thorough-going heels now transposed to the screen for one price of admission...
...films (four inches by five) are used to take photographs of an X-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. (A fluoroscope shows up internal organs but does not take permanent pictures.) With a special camera, a technician can take one picture a minute, for about 25?. Although difficult to interpret, the films are only a trifle less accurate than large plates. They have been used on thousands of people in several large cities, notably Detroit and Chicago...
...JANEIRO--A moonlight sea battle in which an unidentified ship reportedly was sunk and another steamed away under cover of a smoke screen was described today by travellers who said the engagement occurred Friday night in full view of the Brazilian coast...
...will be completely nauseated by this slow-moving story about the woman who worked to remove "illegitimate" from the birth certificates of those Texans who were. Even if you do like children, you will be somewhat nauseated after two hours of billing and cooing but the youngsters on the screen and a similar period of oohing and ahing by slobberly sentimental housewives in the seats behind you. Walter Pidgeon--hereafter to be known as the dead pigeon--does as much as can be done with a role as lifeless as King Tut. Greer Garson, with her red hair...