Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's ritzy Ritz Tower Hotel went to court to persuade Actress Ruth Chatterton, 55, to stop cooking in her three-room suite. The neighbors were complaining of "powerful odors," and the management had tried without success to deodorize the halls. An attorney for the stage & screen actress who once starred in Broadway's Come Out of the Kitchen (1916), said that she was "very much annoyed" and would move...
Stealing a one-week march on the Academy Awards, Hollywood's Foreign Correspondents' Association named 1948's best screen performers: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) and Sir Laurence Olivier (Hamlet...
General Electric Co.'s President Charles E. Wilson also moved fast. He trimmed an estimated $40 million a year, at present volume, off the retail prices of his products, and put out a new 10-in.-screen table model television set at $239 (compared with $325 for G.E.'s cheapest old model in the same size). Willys-Overland's President James D. Mooney found that he, too, could trim prices. He cut $25 to $270 off his Jeeps, trucks and Jeepsters...
...writing what he thought - and eight previous arrests - Kung knew what to expect. He told his wife: "You can reach me at the prison." The day before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating" the Chinese government from "behind the screen." Unless Chiang "goes abroad," wrote Kung, "the nation and the people will be ruined." Some Chinese had said this privately; no other editor had dared to publish it. For three days Kung sat in prison. Released, he promptly wrote an editorial defiance of his late captors ("I am always...
...provided a script that is at once ruthless, compassionate and quietly penetrating. Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth. The lovers' moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears have an almost unbearable intimacy. Sensitively conceived and superbly acted-notably by Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe-Devil makes most cinema explorations of the human heart appear strictly two-dimensional...