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Dolores Costello, 41, blonde screen belle of the '20s and early '30s, was haled into a Los Angeles court by her brother-in-law, Lee LeBlanc. The court had given Dolores custody of his six-year-old daughter; now he wanted the right to see her on weekends...
Pope Pius XII was televised. At a Vatican demonstration, the Pope amused himself with the apparatus for more than an hour, posing in front of the camera and watching himself on the screen. From now on, the Vatican announced, the Pope will have...
...confused with a system demonstrated by the Russians last week, which allows telephone talkers to see each other on a small phone-side television screen...
Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...
Some of the people who worked on the film and acted in it plainly have a real feeling for jazz and the feeling shows up on the screen with honesty and warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...