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These will not be the only screen scenes of the University which the public will see this year. At present, the short, "Hymn of the Nations," featuring Arturo Toscannini, is being shown in New York. This film contains a scene from the classroom of Gaetano A. Salvemini, lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization...
...great surprise of classical physicists, the electrons, recorded on a screen after they went through the holes, made a wave "interference" pattern. The experiment proved that, somehow, each electron went through both holes at once. The discovery, a great blow to the notion that matter is indivisible, led to the theory that a particle can be broken up into fields of energy which alternately reinforce and cancel each other, exactly like waves...
After two successes with this costly type of horse opera (My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead - Son of Flicka), 20th Century-Fox knew exactly what it was about in this elaborate remake of Smoky (first, filmed in 1933). Suitable screen credit for Equine Supervision was awarded to Jack Lindell, who claims to have talent-scouted 38 states before he finally discovered a piece of horseflesh handsome enough to play the title role...
Before he even took a screen test, Smoky was signed to a seven-year acting contract at a beginning salary of $300 a week. Actor MacMurray's gross earnings for the year 1944, reported fortnight ago by the U.S. Treasury...
...portrayal of a murderer is convincing enough, but it is a job unfinished. He forgets the depth of the character in completely failing to expose that "soft center" he claims to have. But Montgomery had some advantages: first, of being a superior actor, and second, of having, on the screen, a medium more effective for emphasizing the mysterious hat-box, in which the murderer's guilt is contained. Dame May Whitty, a rather old party whose very name takes the place of a huge neon sign, plays the dowager who bestows her repressed maternal affection on the strangler...