Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hammer home the point, no fewer than 20 new factories are to be officially opened. Heading the list is a $2,000,000 General Electric plant to make circuit breakers; other factories will produce such goods as coils, rubber buckets, screen wire, photolithography, saber saws, frozen foods, billfolds, brassières. The openings will bring to 400 the total of plants drawn to Puerto Rico by its famed Operation Bootstrap...
There are also on the bill some Charlie Chaplin movies. In these, the happenings on the screen are wonderfully funny and the music is demonic. This week's program at the Brattle is about the finest in several months...
Died. Edward Arnold (real name: Guenther Schneider), 66, topnotch character actor of stage (Whistling in the Dark), screen (Diamond Jim Brady, All That Money Can Buy), .radio and TV, author (Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Encino, Calif. Arnold was orphaned at eleven, played his first role (Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice) in the old East Side Settlement House. His substantial figure, resonant voice and booming laugh made him the best-known tycoon type in movies for some 25 years...
...Grace Kelly Story, as Hollywood might have called it, was the stuff that celluloid dreams are made of, but the reality kept threatening to get in the way of the romance. With lovely Grace herself to play the part of the screen-star daughter of an American bricklayer turned millionaire, and Monaco's own Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III. as her handsome betrothed, the plot was the kind that producers understand and fans love. But Hollywood, Philadelphia and Ruritania are far easier to mix on film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether...
Last week Proprietor Kinsel and the U.S. Air Force finally signed a truce. The Air Force made a movie (hero: Delbert Kinsel) to be shown at his drive-in. From the screen he welcomes his patrons, reminds them that they are just across the road from one of the nation's most vital Air Force bases, and points out that each time a jet passes overhead it means that the U.S. Air Force is on guard. He also suggests that by tuning up their carside loudspeakers patrons can still hear the lovers' mumble above the military rumble...