Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good many ways it was a disappointment. Visually, most of Carmen came through flat and featureless. The second-act inn looked more like a cavern than a tavern, and in the long shots the singers were as faceless as blips on a radar screen. Moreover, there was trouble with the sound reproduction in some theaters. Reported Critic Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune: "What the sound equipment was up to, besides sandblasting, I'm not certain...
Kerr argues that the pat identification of good art with characters who behave in a manner morally irreproachable has discredited the Catholic intellectual position in the arts, and almost nullified Catholic intellectual influence therein. As for "the influence which Catholicism has had" on the screen: "We forget that this influence has been wholly of one kind: the influence of the pressure group...
Vulgarity for God's Sake? Although the Catholic Church has never quailed from the reality of sin in this world, its movie censors almost ban the depiction of sin from the screen: "The notion, for instance, that sin is always, and very precisely, punished in this life would not appear to be Catholic dogma; yet it is at Catholic insistence that the screen echoes and re-echoes the concept...
...also a double debut. It is the first offering of Huntington Hartford, 40-year-old art patron and heir to A & P millions, who decided to turn producer, with plans to deliver two pictures a year during the next three years for RKO release. It also introduces to the screen (as the beguiling bride of Crane's sheriff) Marjorie Steele, a onetime cigarette girl in a Hollywood nightspot, who is Hartford's wife in real life...
Even it was, all the way. Boston, the favorites, got two goals in the first period, as the Crimson ground slowly into motion. After Jeff Coolidge, first line defenseman, drove up the center, and slammed in a long screen shot at 15:38, the team began to pick up. It couldn't tie the score, however, until the second session...