Word: screening
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...other hand, the moving picture will never be able to do any justice to those more vital stories which concern themselves with the struggle of human wills and the development of character. Here the shadow on the screen cannot replace the living personality, nor the "flash" suggest the spoken word. To attempt to "screen" one of the searching character delineations of Sir Arthur Pinero, one of the seathing satires of Bernard Shaw, or one of the witty farces of W. S. Maugham, would be quite as futile as are the condensed novels of Thackeray which appear complete in one newspaper...
...railway was superposed on a map of the Western hemisphere; it wriggled south from New York, across the Caribbean and the bulge of South America, and came to an end somewhere west of Chile, at about the latitude of the Robinson Crusoe Islands. Startling facts were flashed on a screen: "If two-thirds of the population of the world were as highly educated as the other third, the productive capacity of the world would be doubled"; "Ninety-five per cent. of the population of India is illiterate"; "Less than half of the people of the world have ever heard...