Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Screen tests for Ivy Films' new comedy production began yesterday afternoon, retiring president Ward announced. The stars for the comedy will come from the College and Radcliffe, and are expected to have little or no movie acting experience...
...last January, the weary, ragged prospectors stopped where the Avequí River cuts over the mountain's edge. One of the men tossed a few shovels of river sand on his suruku (three-screened pan). He spun and twisted it, then turned over the screens and looked. The coarse screen held a 4-carat diamond, the middle screen 15 or 20 diamonds ranging from .8 to 3 carats, the fine screen 120 diamonds of about half-carat size. That first haul was worth about...
...Screen Director's Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Kirk Douglas in Champion...
Italy's prizewinning The Bicycle Thief (TIME, Dec. 12), one of the screen's most widely acclaimed films, has been called honest, moving and classic. It remained for sharp-eyed Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen, who administers the industry's production code, to call it indecent and unacceptable for the bulk of U.S. moviegoers. Last week the picture's sponsors were fighting Breen's edict that the movie must be cut before it can go from the art theaters into most U.S. cinemansions...
...rise to state governorship. It is a picture with a delayed-action moral, and that is the source of the film's greatness. You don't realize you have been listening to an earnest damning of present day politics until you can unglue your eyes from the screen and start thinking...