Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Cheered by nightclubbers as she staged a comeback in Hollywood: the silent screen's Mae (The Merry Widow) Murray, who is pushing 60. She showed up in the floor show at the stylish Mocambo, glided through the Merry Widow waltz...
Three months ago, A. E. Matthews, veteran British actor, came to Boston in a play called "Yes, M'Lord." He is now back again, in a screen form of that play, and reproduces the talent which made the play an excellent drawing-room comedy...
...more flexible medium of the screen has helped the plot considerably. As the play was staged with only one set, some of the factors leading up to the complicated political plot had to be left out. In the picture, the opening and transitions are much smoother, though the possibilities of varied scenery are not imaginatively handled...
...Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...
...Songs for Me (Columbia). What does a happy wife & mother do when she learns that she has cancer and only ten months to live? Having made so bold as to put the problem forthrightly on the screen for the first time (while keeping it out of the film's advertising campaign), Columbia Pictures has been cautious enough to make the story's characters behave as little as possible like human beings...