Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has sent many metropolitan and rural audiences home with rotating intestines and a sincere wish that no one had even brought up the matter. Gone also, under Will Hays edict, is the spice which helped the play to an eight-year run on Broadway. What appears on the screen, shrouding fine performances by Charlie Grapewin and Gene Tierney as Jeeter and Ellie May, is a comical but altogether slapstick movie in the best Mack Sennet tradition...
From the very beginning of his saga of Charles Foster Kane, when he plunges straight into the story after the title is flashed on the screen, with none of the usual dreary lists of associate producers and wardrobe mistresses, Welles kicks over the time-tested customs of movie-making, employing unusual angle shots, unique lights and shadows, and dramatic flashbacks--a device which has rarely been so effectively exploited...
Once again the screen presents the woeful problem of a settled married couple lifted from their wedlock by an unhappy legal circumstance. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is the story of a man and wife with marital tribulations of more than ordinary calibre. Decked out with an unusually insinuating script, and Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard to talk it up as they and few others could, it lacks only some action to make it one of the best bits of bedroom propaganda of the year...
Robert S. Schwab, for Brain Wave Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, for the purchase and construction of a suitable cathode ray oscillograph apparatus with one built-in head amplifier and power amplifier projecting on a 4-inch screen and accompanied with a suitable camera with four different speeds of operation, using a standard 35 millimeter negative film...
...return engagement, Sally Rand will come to Harvard Tuesday, when she will headline a list of sparkling entertainers from stage, screen, radio, and the professional wrestling ring at the annual Freshman Smoker to be held in Sanders Theatre...