Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conditioned afternoon last week watching a show, This Is Cinerama. As President, he has attended no plays, only one concert (the National Symphony in 1953) and one opera (the Metropolitan's road-company La Bohème last April). But he wanted to see the curved-screen Cinerama process. Since it could not be shown at the White House, the President and most of his staff went to a private showing at Washington's Warner Theater. Dutifully, a Secret Service agent-tall at that-sat in front of the President, who later moved to get a better view...
...over his head, a 2-in., heart-shaped black target to his white shirt. "I am innocent; I have no malice against anyone," were Don Jesse Neal's last words as five .30-.30 rifles (one loaded with a blank cartridge) poked through five holes in a burlap screen 25 ft. away. "Ready!" said the officer in charge to his men as the sun edged red above the rugged Wasatch mountains; then, seconds later, softly, so that the man in the chair would not hear him, "Fire...
...Buffalo a band of hoodlums broke into School 69 last week, emptied fire extinguishers over the auditorium's seats, smashed a snare drum through a bass drum, broke two large ceramic vases, slashed a movie screen to ribbons, desecrated a new American flag, broke both skylights in the gym, and in general indulged in a wholesale orgy of ink splashing, paint splattering, light-bulb smashing. Estimated damage: $1,000. What worried Buffalo authorities most: P.S. 69 is the twelfth school to be attacked since last February...
...Disneyland, the gigantic amusement park in Anaheim, Calif., scheduled to open in mid-July, Walt Disney will have a theater for a 360° screen, which he confidently expects represents the final step in evolution of the wide screen. Last week Disney gave the press a peek at it; standing on a platform in the middle of a circular theater, the viewer watched a 15-minute scenic tour of Monument Valley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Balboa Bay, had the sensation of looking out of the same car or boat that the eleven-camera unit had worked from. The sense...
...cowboy, the most durable and popular figure on the U.S. screen, has until recent years generally been dismissed by critics and film historians as an error of popular taste. But in French critical circles, the cowboy has long been regarded with deep solemnity. Many a longhaired Frenchman believes that the western film is Hollywood's finest achievement, a kind of national folklore in the making. In a flood of recently published books and articles, Europe's highbrow critics have been soberly examining the western and discovering in it virtues and complexities which even its most loyal fans never...