Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade, not aid" program, the Administration sounded an encouraging note. The President last week sent back to the Tariff Commission for further study its recommendation to double the 32½% tariff on imported screen-printed silk scarves-a trade which last year provided $520,000 of dollar income for Italy, $213,000 for France, $117,000 for the United Kingdom...
Hans Conried makes a thoroughly mean Terwilliker. Peter Lind Hayes as the plumber and Mary Healy as the mother are ingratiating new screen personalities. As the boy, ten-year-old Tommy Rettig moves appealingly through all the excitement in striped polo shirt, blue jeans, and a blue beanie with a hand ("Happy Fingers") fixed...
Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan...
Died. William Farnum, 76, oldtime idol of the silent screen; in Los Angeles. Making his cinema debut in The Spoilers (1914), He-Man Farnum outpunched Villain Tom Santschi in the-movies' first bloody balcony-to-street saloon brawl, spent three days in the hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruises, bent ribs. In the early '20s Farnum made as much as $520,000 a year, lost $2,000,000 in the '29 crash, survived the transition to sound to play supporting roles (Samson and Delilah...
Tonight at 8:30 (J. Arthur Rank; Continental Distributing Inc.), Noel Coward's 1936 play series, has already yielded two better-grade British movies, Brief Encounter and The Astonished Heart. Now three more of the original nine short plays have been transferred to the screen in a richly Technicolored episodic movie. Directed by Anthony (The Rocking Horse Winner) Pelissier, who was a featured player in the stage version, the picture is sometimes long on talk and short on the high sparkle that Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence gave it in the theater, but it is a faithful, well...