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Because the viewing surface of current television sets is not a separate screen but the glass end of a huge vacuum tube, even an 8½-by-11-in. picture represents a considerable engineering triumph. But prospects of families crowding to peer at this tiny view have long worried prospective television advertisers, discouraged prospective set owners, stumped designers. Last week in Manhattan. RCA-Victor demonstrated its postwar answer. Operating like movies on the principle of projection, with a reflecting optical system like that used in observatory telescopes and a new high voltage tube only five inches in diameter...
Died. Alexander Granach, 54, Polish-born stage & screen actor (A Bell for Adano, The Seventh Cross), pre-Hitler German star; following an emergency appendectomy; in Manhattan. He once played the title role in Yiddish in the pioneer anti-Nazi play, Professor Mam-lock, for 300 performances in Poland...
...Murder, My Sweet" is another happy product of Hollywood's new policy of providing basically grade B detective yarns with skilled directors and adequate budgets to turn out entertaining, if unsophisticated screen fare. Although "Murder, My Sweet" does not measure up to the high standard set by "Laura"--which it seeks to imitate--it is nevertheless a welcome and wholesale relief from the sagas of bullets and blackjacks so long advertised as "second...
...twenties, when producers undertook to carry out such colossal, stupendous ideas as filming the Bible. It demonstrates the obvious fact that sensuous revels cannot be mixed with martyrs to produce sincere religious inspiration, and it proves that the genuine fervor of the Passion Play cannot be transferred to the screen...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...