Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Carlyle Blackwell, 71, wavy-haired romantic idol of the silent screen (The Third Woman, The Beloved Vagabond, She), and leading man for early screen beauties Marion Bavies, Betty Blythe, Blanche Sweet, Alice Joyce et al.; of heart disease; in Miami...
...chair to switch stations. Last week Zenith Radio Corp. brought out a new set equipped with electric eyes, permitting the viewer to sit as far away as 20 ft. and control it with a special pistol-grip flashlight. By shooting the beam at one slot alongside the screen, he can turn the set on (and off): by aiming at a second slot, he can switch stations; by aiming at a third slot, he can turn off the sound. Cost about $75 more than conventional TV sets. But the gadget is more than a sales gimmick; because it makes a sport...
...Order of the British Empire (with the rank of Commander and the right to put the letters C.B.E. after their name) went to Miler Roger Bannister, 26 (see MILESTONES), and to Stage & Screen Star Alec Guinness...
Died. Walter Hampden, 75, stage, screen and television actor, famed as one of the century's topflight interpreters of high romantic drama; of a stroke; in Hollywood. Hampden scored his first major critical success at 26 in England, as a substitute for Sir Henry Irving in Hamlet. His touring repertory company (formed in 1908) brought him fame as one of the most versatile Shakespearean actors of his day. He turned to character roles in the movies (All This and Heaven Too, Sabrina) and radio, but was unhappy about having to adapt his style to modern low-key scripts. "Continuation...
...theme song brays steadily from the nation's jukeboxes; coonskin hats, flintlock muskets and some 100 other Crockett-inspired products flood U.S. stores (TIME, May 23). Now at last, the film has reached movie theaters, but its belated arrival is far from an anticlimax. Technicolor and the wide screen combine to make this classic tale of derring-do bigger and better than ever. The episodic story has been shortened by 40 minutes but not changed: Davy still fights the Creek War, gets elected to Congress, dies gloriously in the Alamo. Newcomer Fess Parker plays the famed frontiersman with just...