Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forster's A Passage to India and Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, with casts including such important movie stars as Herbert Marshall and Deborah Kerr. The program was a cultural hit; six U.S. universities have offered home-study courses in conjunction with the show. But it was no big-audience...
Last week the show got a change in name: this season it will be NBC Theater. Explained NBC's press department: "We thought the word 'university' was scaring listeners away...
...Boiled Egg. A few blocks up Broadway, ballet fans and theatergoers were also getting a chance to see-and whistle at-what the French had to offer. Canny Showman Lee Shubert had brought over a show that Parisians and Londoners had been cheering for the last year: handsome, 25-year-old Roland Petit's lusty new Ballets de Paris...
...usual sureseater formula is simple: give moviegoers what they rarely get in standard cinemansions-a single feature, no popcorn, well-behaved next-seat neighbors, super-comfortable seats and, most important, high-quality pictures from Britain, France, Italy and sometimes even Hollywood. Some 70 of the U.S. sureseaters show this kind of film exclusively; the rest, as often as they can get them...
...just as well give you a headache. The story can strike you as social commentary, or a cutting-room sweeping of unarticulated scenes. But "A Touch of the Times" will also let you know that there are people seriously pointing ahead towards movie-making as an art. It will show you that even in their creeping stage, these people can do a lot of things better than their million-dollar walking brothers...