Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Walter Huston, whose acting of homespun character roles made him a longtime stage & screen favorite; of a heart attack, a day after celebrating his 66th birthday; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently...
With hardly any waste motion behind the scenes, Liebman gets plenty of movement on the TV screen. In 27-year-old Sid Caesar he has a TV-raised multi-dimensional comedian who is equally convincing as a slot machine, a head-lolling infant, a British general or a Freudian psychiatrist just off the plane from Vienna. Caesar's comedy partner is pint-sized Imogene Coca ("No one knows how old she is"), who can switch from a prim Victorian to a stripteaser to a Wagnerian Valkyrie without missing a nuance or a laugh...
...neck of the tube, which shoots a single beam of electrons-producing three colors: red, blue and green-onto the face of the tube. The millions of electrons are spun in front of a mask containing 117,000 minute holes, or one for every three dots on the viewing screen itself. The holes in the mask expose the incoming electrons to each of the color dots in turn, thus making a picture which approximates the color of whatever object or scene is being telecast...
...second type of color tube works in a similar way, except that each of the three colors is produced by its own special "gun." Whenever a beam is uncovered by one of the infinitesimal holes in the mask, the right color dot appears at the right point on the screen...
...Into his clutches come Dane Clark and Ruth Roman, two fugitives from justice. Before they can get away to square their debt to society, Massey maltreats not only most of the cast but also some lines from Shakespeare, whose Richard III he idolizes and emulates. In the end, the screen fills up with enough blood-splotched corpses (in Technicolor) to make Richard III look like a Quaker. By that time. Bar ricade has long since done itself to death...