Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brunswick issues and the chance they offered speculators to strike it rich caused an even greater flurry of excitement. Typical of the rampaging success of these issues was Porcupine Peninsular, a little-known company with holdings in northern Ontario. When the exchange's Trans-Lux screen flashed word that Porcupine had bought 34 claims near the Bathurst find, shares jumped from 4? to 19?. In one week, Porcupine alone accounted for the trading of 7,057,900 shares...
...Their properties are largely unknown . . . For every company that strikes it rich, literally dozens will fall by the wayside. And for every speculator who makes a fortune, thousands wind up with nothing but worthless stock." But that word of caution could scarcely impress a construction company clerk when the screen reported his stock at $2.45. "I got in at 8?," he said. "I'm just holding...
...text was adapted by one of Giannini's pupils at the Juilliard School of Music, and nearly everybody was able to keep up with the lines, despite the heavy screen of sound thrown up by the full (90 pieces) Cincinnati Symphony. Composer Giannini was called to the stage for "the most tremendous ovation I ever...
...breath asking scene of the spitfire over Dover which sets the powerful pace before the titles flash on the screen in Breaking the Sound Newton, buried in the sand up to his head and teaming eloquently at the rising tide in the title role of Black-beard Charlie Chaplin's imitation of a violin is with unsanforized legs in limelight...
...Normal Vision" should not be confused with the process of Cinema. For "Normal Vision," the viewer must observe the picture through Polaroid glasses, and the screen is about stand and size. Since this is a new press, flaws are obvious and excusable. For instance, important syncronation of the dual mages makes moving figures Shimmer, as though viewed through a layer of slightly agitated water. Also, figures in a scene with depth, appear smaller than those in normal pictures. This means that the audience, in many cases, feels further away from the action than usual, thus defeating the purpose of three...