Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which burns at 6,000 degrees, melts all metals, renders water explosive by breaking it down into hydrogen and oxygen. He has invented a delayed-action "explosive" which explodes so gradually that it can be used on sinking submarines to expel water and chlorine. He has devised a magnetic screen so powerful that when it is struck by bombs it shatters them to fragments. Last week he was back on the air for Chicago's WGN and other Mutual stations after a summer pause, still busy saving the U. S. from doom...
...give cinemaudiences a good idea why he is a director's actor. At 46, he is a World War I veteran (having lost his teeth and acquired a grating voice from a gas attack), a two-time Oscar winner (Come and Get It, Kentucky). Practically never on the screen without an old man's makeup, the real Brennan can still stroll unnoticed along the streets of Hollywood, a slight, sandy-haired, balding man who might be a real-estate salesman...
...Crimson wishes to extend its deepest sympathy to the management and patrons of the University Theatre, which, under the stress of circumstance, is forced to screen "The Way of All Flesh" and "Blondie Has Servant Trouble...
...replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen and good old-fashioned burlesque...
From then on Grover Jones kept at the career, amassed more than 350 screen credits. He directed a quickie for a comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with...