Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present. This one, the third floor, is being used for work in electromagnetic radiation, solid state physics, and physical electronics. The group experimenting in electromagnetic waves also uses a penthouse on the roof of the building for antenna research. A unique feature of this installation is a ground-screen on top of the penthouse that will give the scientists the equivalent of an infinite plane for their experiments...
...Miss Sullavan realizes that she has made an error, she can find solace in the casting of her co-star. Joseph Cotten, one of the screen's top soft-spoken actors, is supposed to act power-mad, wild and unharnessed...
...Robe is familiar in formula, its format is different. While the CinemaScope process does not create a sense of depth so great as in stercoscopic films, one does feel the solidity of both actors and sets. The curving screen, however, two-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, presents unique problems of composition. Director Henry Koster carefully avoids small grouping of actors, but when close-ups are necessary, vast expanses of background distract to the right and left...
...heart attack; in New York City. A policeman's son, he learned to sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio's Palmolive Hour, he became a nationwide favorite. In 1931 he dropped the pseudonym, and, never appearing on stage or screen, became star soloist on NBC's weekly Album of Familiar Music, Waltz Time...
...first wide-screen CinemaScope epic, soth Century-Fox's The Robe, was breaking box-office records all over the country. Manhattan's Roxy Theater reported a first-week gross of $264,000. It was the same story in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and San Francisco. Foxmen dreamily talked of total earnings topping Gone With the Wind's record $35 million take. Hollywood Reporter Columnist Mike Connolly wrote: "The Robe just has to be the greatest grosser of all time. It might even outsell the Bible...