Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Epic staging, so highly vaunted of late, meets every expectation and is a neat solution when faced with a dining hall that isn't a theatre. I suspect many people could not read the legends flashed on a high screen but with the clarity on stage below, this should have caused no confusion. John Ratte's settings were unusual, even for the College, where good sets have been the rule in most productions. Leslie Van Zandt's costumes also added to the general aura of professional quality. General Manager Thomas Merriam, Stage Manager Ricardo de la Espiriella, and Technical Director...
...Unfortunately, the wrong thing does Guinness is tripped up by a script which keeps him in the background and gives him too little to do. Not that the English comedian's flight to France and sophisticated comedy is entirely dull. The mere presence of the old master on the screen would be enough to keep any film from sinking into the grey depths of tedium. The main trouble with this one is that the audience gets an uncomfortable feeling that just out of camera range is a writer who worries more about working out his plot than giving the actors...
Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they...
Hardly a moment on the screen since Chaplin made the last scene in City...
...talk about God, Peter Marshall's story as it emerges on the screen has depressingly little to say about religion. On the evidence given in the film, the man was more to be praised for his social than for his spiritual qualities. The film, much more strongly than the book, gives the impression that Peter Marshall was a great salesman, who sold Christianity the way another man might sell frontage in an exclusive suburb. And his death at 46, which is apparently intended to move one like the death of a martyr, has instead a kind of sorry unimportance...