Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the ultimatum expired, with only about three hours of daylight left to fight, the British Commander, Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville, felt he could wait no longer. With three capital ships, an aircraft carrier, three cruisers and a strong screen of destroyers he went into action. When he opened fire most of the French men of war were unprepared. So far as these pictures show, they never fired a shot...
...Dodecanese (Twelve Islands) are really 13 islands off the southwest of Turkey which Italy grabbed in 1912 during the scrap with Turkey for Tripoli. Rhodes is the biggest of them. Being unable to raise so much as a smoke screen from the Latin enemy, the Eastern Mediterranean Command decided to bite at the Dodecanese and hope for an answer...
Drop a dime in a Soundies (the word apparently has no singular form) and you see a three-minute film, with musical accompaniment, projected on the box's 24-by-18-inch plastic screen. The $695 box is designed to hold 1,000 ft. of 16-mm. film, made for Mills by James Roosevelt's Globe Productions in Hollywood. There is no direct corporate connection between Mills and Globe. But the film will be leased to box owners, at $17.50 per reel for the first week, less later, by a projected Soundies Distributing Corp. of America...
Late in 1937, Broadway Producer Jed Harris hired Martha to play Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Two years later she was hired for the screen version of Our Town, moved directly from that to The Howards, ended up earning $500 a week. Martha once occupied a small Manhattan apartment with four other girls who selected their guests according to "the length of cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself...
...since talking pictures arrived. Not until early this year, when veteran, British-born Director Frank Lloyd began shooting The Howards at Williamsburg, did any major director train his camera on the Founding Fathers. In The Howards of Virginia Director Lloyd presents their era in an able, slow-moving, sincere screen translation of Elizabeth Page's novel, The Tree of Liberty...