Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Ater 14 years of marriage and three of divorce, Poetess Dorothy Parker, 57, was remarried in Bel-Air, Calif, to second husband Alan Campbell, 43. Explained Screen Writer Campbell: "I just called her up in New York and asked her and she said yes." What about the honeymoon? "We're not going away," said Dorothy. "We've been everywhere...
...football games into three Chicago theaters and one in Detroit. Since no Big Ten games will be telecast to the public this fall, the four theaters will have exclusive rights to the games as they are played. NBC Vice President "Chic" Showerman happily ticked off the advantages: "On large-screen theater TV you can smell the players, they're that close. You can go to a game, you won't have to wear the old raccoon coat, and you don't have to get drunk...
...Manhattan living room one day last week, an eight-year-old boy, his eye on the clock, said: "Mummy, I want to see Howdy Doody." Obediently his mother went to the television set. As the screen flickered to life, the face that appeared was not the familiar, freckled countenance of the famous TV puppet, but the cold, clean-cut face of a man talking Russian. Said the little boy, in a voice foreboding tears: "I want to see Howdy Doody...
Racial tensions have now been pictured on the screen frequently enough to have lost some of their novelty. Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and co-Scripter Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...
Annie Get Your Gun. An adaptation of the Broadway musicomedy hit gives the screen Irving Berlin's best score and Betty Hutton her best role (TIME, April...