Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning alone and tired to his Villa Torlonia home one evening some years ago, Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...
...which he bought at half-price just after the market crash with borrowed money guaranteed by his trustees. There prospective "buyers" who felt inclined to make an impressive gift to the museum could "buy" anything from a 17th-Century wrought-iron fire set ($50) to a complete stone choir screen ($150,000). When a "sale" was made, the gift was taken upstairs and installed in an appropriate period setting, complete with a neat brass plaque honoring the donor. Fiske Kimball's gift shoppe has less than $150,000 worth of unredeemed art left...
...transferred to celluloid, is the same vivid and upsetting and magnificent and ugly story that Steinbeck first wrote. Gone are the Steinbeck descriptions, gone are his cuss-words, gone is some of his message--but by and large Director John Ford has retained enough of Steinbeck to make the screen sizzle and the audience think...
...audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders which are all but shown on the screen, one suicide, maddening jealousy and maddening love, puffing locomotives and sooty slums: this should give you your fill of "reality" for more than one night. But however gruesome and depressing, "The Human Beast" is only as exciting--and as disgusting--as the strange animal after which it is named and which...
Asserting that the Governor was simply a friend of Oklahoma utilities, Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee, friend of the dam, declared on the floor of the U. S. Senate: "Who gains by wrecking [this dam] ? . . . The utilities gain. . . . This is only a smoke screen intended to hide the real issue, which is whether or not the people shall have cheap electricity." Said engineers, if the dam is not closed and water is allowed to rush through the gates it will cause thousands of dollars of damage, wash out Oklahoma's immediate prospects of cheap electricity. Only hope...