Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Physical Culture is edited by unobtrusive, 36-year-old Ernest V. Heyn, crack movie-magazine editor (Modern Screen, et al.), who went to Macfadden's Photoplay in 1937, last year merged it with Movie Mirror to make it top movie magazine (circ. : 800,000). It stresses health as the foundation of female beauty. With a print order of 275,000, alleged newsstand returns of the new Physical Culture indicated sales double those of the old muscle magazine...
Then the next day there came a new test, and it was at this point that the Yale man rose to heights of glory. The enlisted men used a few smoke bombs to raise a screen and then the battalion was told to "charge" through it without masks on. The idea was that someone had mixed a few tear bombs with the smoke bombs and the officers wanted to see how long it would be before the cadets would catch on and throw on their masks. The trial was 99 per cent a success. The one per cent...
What "Native Son" lacks most is unity. Substituting a large number of short scenes for the conventional three-act division may be novel, but it gives about the same impression as our Hero jerking across the screen in a 1910 movie. Even Canada Lee's powerful interpretation of Bigger Thomas, the Negro murderer about whose guilt the play tries to center, fails to draw it together. The authors may even have realized this, when they wrote the message that the play itself should have got across, into an over-emotional and over-long speech by the defendant's attorney...
...Hired by the cinema industry to represent it in the Senate investigation of alleged Hollywood warmongering was Attorney Wendell L Wlllkie....Strapping ex-Sailor Stirling Hayden, blond rising screen star (TIME, Feb. 17), turned up in Gloucester, Mass, with a pair of California automobile license plates, dumped them into the harbor, swore he was washed up with Hollywood..... Maureen O'Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious...
Unorthodox is La Cava's method of making a picture. He believes that the screen is not (like the stage) an acting medium, that a scene plays itself. La Cava begins a picture by throwing away the script, keeping the bare outline of the plot and developing it spontaneously around the personalities of the actors he has selected. If a scene rings true, it is right; if not, the actor should not be forced to play it. He writes most of the new script himself...