Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...
Much of The Senator's impudence toward politicians and politicking would probably seem rather thin on the stage, or in print. But it is so rare to see any national institution really slapped around, on the screen, that the picture seems not only very funny but very audacious...
Volpone (Siritzky International), rare Ben Jonson's rarest spectacle, has been somewhat simplified for the screen by Adapters Stefan Zweig and Jules Romains. In reviving Jonson in any form they have had to combat what T. S. Eliot calls a "most perfect conspiracy of approval." In the general willingness to grant Jonson all manner of dull virtues, it has been generally overlooked that (in Volpone especially) he abounds in the lively vice of showmanship. This film exaggerates that vice. The result is magnificent mummery, set and played with tremendous style...
...Joyful Hour (Sat. 9 p.m., Mutual). Eighteen stars, headed by the stage & screen's Ethel Barrymore, in a special salute to Christmas...
...Turtle (Warner) presented Hollywood with a Problem which had to be licked with the customary false promises. On the stage, the play owes much of its success to its graceful, believable illustration of how a lonely sergeant and a lonely nice-girl go to bed together. On the screen the young people spend most of their time gracelessly, unbelievably showing how careful they are to avoid just that. The movie is most coyly prurient where the play was most pleasantly candid...