Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from...
...eternal triangle" provides fair entertainment. Spencer Tracy, shuttling from a steaming jungle to an expensive night club, is as painfully high-minded as usual, but manages to look at home in both places. Verree Teasdale, as a clever, shallow sophisticate, is the saving grace of the acting in this film. But still, Lamarr, lamerrier...
Traditionally sophisticated, Vassar undergraduates turn up their noses at "rah-rah" stuff, avoid exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...
...principle of the coronagraph (which resembles an anti-aircraft gun-see cut) is simple. A metal disc is placed at the focus of the telescope lens to cut out the bright sun image. A second lens focuses on photographic film the black disc and flaring corona, and a powerful spectrograph breaks up coronal radiation into its component colors. A moving picture camera can also be attached to the telescope...
...David Wark Griffith, big-shot director of Hollywood's own prehistory. Called in by the Roaches to produce his first picture since he remade Broken Blossoms in England in 1936, Griffith declined to take any credit for One Million B. C. Said he: "My name would do the film little good, and I am sure that the picture would do me little good...