Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Smoke Screen? For five months the Communists had kept the heat off Berlin. With their wiggling disruption of truck traffic from the West and the launching of Pushkin's pogrom, the heat went on again. Sly Gerhart Eisler, now propaganda boss for Eastern Germany, announced a Soviet Youth March for Whitsuntide (May 27-30). With flag and fife, said he, special "people's police" units would lead half a million members of Communist youth groups in a demonstration into Western Berlin. German anti-Communists were sure that the Reds would try to take the opportunity to provoke violence...
...very pitiful state," they wrote. "The walls are peeling and dirty, the chairs are broken. The customers have to sit in the dark before the show starts. Those who sit in the last rows get frozen, because the exit into the street is just behind them. The screen cannot be seen well from the last rows. When the customers complain, the manager explains: 'You cannot see if you are small and the man in front of you is tall...
...Bickford, the Cardinal in the movie, is one of the few who can act. He, at least, has a variation of facial expression and a change of inflection in his voice. His prosecutors, however, are a series of the most evil looking men that have been seen on the screen since the fall of the movie Gestapo. The similarity of the Hungarian police force and the stereotype Gestapo is, of course, intended, but I felt it was carried to a ludicrous extreme...
Students in eight sections of Social Relations 1a were under the scrutiny of two unseen observers this past term. From behind a one-way screen the observers watched and recorded the reactions of students to different methods of teaching...
Having made three more movies in England (one is Alfred Hitchcock's Stage-fright), he went to Hollywood a few weeks ago with his Scottish bride of six months. The screen's hottest "discovery" in many months, now working on another picture for Warner (Lightning Strikes Twice), Todd is still somewhat dazed by the studio's Academy Award aspirations for his performance...