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...said it couldn't happen here? Screen testing for the 13 female roles in Veritas Films' first production, "Touch of the Times," began yesterday afternoon on the lawn outside Longfellow Hall. But the accent was on personality, rather than tight-fitting, oomph sweaters and seductive smiles...
...into VitaVision through his longtime friend, Writer-Producer Gene Towne, who had bought the rights to some 200 patents that went into VitaVision. VitaVision requires special cameras, paper and developing process. The key is a thin, transparent plastic screen, in effect a lens, which is laminated to the finished picture. By performing the same optical trick as a stereoscope, it gives the picture the illusion of depth...
Died. Olive Borden, 40, briefly famed screen beauty of the '20s; of double pneumonia and complications; in a Los Angeles mission for destitute women, where she had been a haggard, hard-drinking off-&-on guest for three years...
Aware of this danger, the Soviet General Staff has begun a major undertaking on the Caspian shores: they are erecting a gigantic metal screen, something like an enormous Faraday cage, which would prevent the radioactive effect of the bombs from reaching...
Fearful of overstocking the market with the crusty growls and efficient gunplay of Humphrey Bogart, Warner Brothers has forsaken thrillers for the more artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...