Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SHAKESPEARE ON THE SCREEN--Orson Welles plays the title role, Suzanne Cloutier Desdemona, in the Welles' film version of the Shakespeare drama opening Wednesday at the Beacon Hill Theatre. --Boston Globe, January...
...House staffers, more than a score of Republican governors, Senators and Representatives. The motif was partisan right down to the "First Lady Salad" in Spokane and the "Fresh Asparagus Spears Nixon" in Cleveland. There were the inevitable bloopers: in New York's dingy Madison Square Garden a television screen went blank just as the President began speaking, came brightly back just as he finished. There was evidence of ward-level tricksters at work: the Los Angeles dinner committee, dominated by Nixon supporters, invited California's Governor Goodwin J. Knight to appear only after making certain that Knight...
...lavender cocktail dress, wearing a single strand of pearls and earrings with the word "Ike" printed on each. Ike raised both arms in familiar salute to the crowd, then went with Mamie to a table, where they sat sipping ice water and watching the movie-sized television screen. As the TV program began, a single spotlight centered on the Eisenhowers, forcing the President to shield his eyes with his right hand...
...President Eisenhower's delight, the deadpan face of Glenn Stephens, who was the engineer on Ike's 1952 campaign train, flashed, onto the screen from Detroit. Stumbling in several places, Stephens read his lines woodenly-and still managed to sound as though he meant every word of what he was saying. "If you want to go train-riding again," said Stephens, "just let me know. I have my hand on the throttle, my lunchbox is full, and I'm ready to start...
...gigantic." If this dictum is true, the moviegoer of recent years has been seeing the sharp decline of the western. Gone is love's old sweet story of strong, silent him and dimity her. In its place the studios are offering enormous spectacles on the wide screen-galumphing travesties of the traditional horse opera-in which the lusty heroes now wrestle biddies as well as baddies, and the heroines are as likely to end up in the bushes as in front of a preacher...