Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much credit for the movie's excellence goes to Fric Ambler for his tightly written screen play. In all, The Magic Box is far above average. DAVID C. D. ROGERS
Charlie Chaplin first heard of Claire from Playwright Arthur Laurents, who had seen her in the London production of Ring Round the Moon. Chaplin asked for some pictures. When he saw them ("Those dark eyes and everything!"), Chaplin brought her to New York for a screen test. The test turned out badly. Claire returned to England in tears and, for four months, heard nothing. Then came the summons from Hollywood. Chaplin had conned and pondered all the possibilities. Said he: "I never think screen tests prove a bloody thing. We finally decided it had to be Claire...
...week, 500 dealers swarmed around 16 brand-new trailers to see what was new in mobile homes for 1953. Most startling sight at the annual exhibition of Mid-States Corp., biggest trailer company in the U.S., was a lumbering, 65-ft. Executive Cruiser, with bar, built-in TV, movie screen, radiotelephone, conference room, and sundeck from which a model dived into a portable swimming pool. Price: $75,000. But the trailer that interested dealers most was the National, a smaller model with which Mid-States President William MacDonald, 44, hopes to boost his sales 36% next year to $30 million...
They intend to install a Trans-Lux projection unit with wide angle cameras and a translucent screen, which can easily be removed. According to Haliday, this will allow them to change the movie house back into a theatre during the summer season...
Breaking Through The Sound Barrier (London Films; United Artists), a soaring, British-made movie about supersonic aviation, gets off to a flying start. In a prologue before the credit titles come on the screen, a World War II Spitfire, cavorting above the English Channel, is almost torn to bits as it plunges into a wracking flat-out power dive and hits the turbulent shock waves of the sound barrier. The picture then goes on to the main body of its subject: the postwar conquest of faster-than-sound flight, which turned out to be the most significant event...