Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Irene Rich, 58, star of the silent screen who recently played the first woman President of the U.S. in Broadway's long-running As the Girls Go, was to be a bride for the fourth time. The groom-to-be: Utilities (Stone & Webster, Inc.) Executive George H. Clifford, 68, a widower...
...screen shot made it 9 to 8 at 19:41 and as the crowd howled Chase made five fantastic saves before time...
Actress Bacall proves to be the turning point of both. Cast as a frustrated intellectual, a part as pretentiously obscure as anything the screen has produced since it learned to talk like a psychoanalyst, she marries Trumpeter Douglas and spreads the frustration around until he hits the bottle and the skids. Before Douglas' artily photographed descent into the Bowery, the picture drags in a sequence killing off the old Negro musician whom it has patronized all along...
...Astonished Heart (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) returns Britain's Noel Coward to the screen in the double role of scenarist and star.' For a while, it seems cause for mild celebration. Coward still handsomely fills a Mayfair drawing room with the glitter of verbal bric-a-brac. But when he begins using the stagy artifice of his comedies in behalf of a plot that combines half-baked psychiatry with bogus tragedy, even his admirers are likely to blush...
...make it anything more than a celluloid recording of a performance. No dialogue has been added (and subtitling the arias would be to no one's good). For those patrons unfamiliar with the Victor Hugo story, there is a vastly confusing precis of each act written on the screen before each curtain-rise...