Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onetime White House Aide (1943-45) Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, disclosed, on the twelfth anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that he had withheld from newsmen certain photographs made of F.D.R. at Yalta: "It was my job to screen those pictures and to release to the press only those least marked by the deadly, haggard weariness of the commander whose face . . . had so long been a symbol of confidence." In Los Angeles, recalling that she had seen some of the censored pictures, Eleanor Roosevelt did not concur: "I do not believe that [F.D.R...
...method of piano pedagogy more modern than Etude appeared in the magazine's wake. Chicago's educational TV channel, WTTW, last week introduced a program of weekly keyboard lessons. On the screen Pianist Carroll H. LeFavor leads two pupils up and down the scales. In 4,000 Illinois homes children follow LeFavor's fingering through the half-hour lessons. Most attractive feature of the lessons, to parents and neighbors: the home course, sold for $1 by a local instrument firm, includes a cardboard keyboard guaranteed to guard against resounding wrong notes...
...Indeed? Up to the stage trotted Jesse Lasky Jr., an officer of the Screen Writers' Guild. The academy had asked Lasky to pick up Rich's Oscar after someone claiming he was Rich phoned to say that he had to sit up with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought...
...risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright Chayefsky has come out firmly on the side of marital fidelity. But a reasonably attentive moviegoer will realize that Chayefsky offers genuine insights as well as phony issues. And in The Bachelor Party these insights have been skillfully translated to the screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow...
Adapted for the screen by Colette, Pit of Loneliness is a sad tale of frustrated affection and desire in a 19th century girls' boarding school. Inadequate sub-title translations of the French outline a depressing picture of adolescent girls and their teachers in fertile, maleless isolation...