Word: screening
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...first exhibition of Danish literature at Harvard, including the works of 400 years, went on display yesterday at Houghton Library. The highlight of the exhibit is a first edition of Hans Christian Anderson's "Fairy Tales" loaned to the University by screen and radio actor Jean Hersholt...
...screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" follows the script, set, and even some of the props of the stage version with unusual faithfulness. But it fails to duplicate the central characters' sense of confinement and of frustration which was one of the chief virtues of the play...
Despite the defect inherent in a film adaptation, the screen "Glass Menagerie" is a very good job. The script requires only four important speaking parts. Three are very well acted and the fourth is done competently. Gertrude Lawrence handles the meatiest role, that of the faded belle, and she proves that she deserved it. Her part demands several long speeches without much accompanying action, something difficult to put over in a movie. Miss Lawrence never misses; she brings out the peculiar combination of guts and hot air of the character se portrays...
Kirk Douglas is competent as the "gentleman caller" but is outclassed by Miss Lawrence, Miss Wyman, and Mr. Kennedy and, whereas in the play the caller was a doltish sort of a fellow putting on an act, he emerges as a bright, slick young man in the screen version. Somehow the original caller was more consistent with Williams' description of the entire work "a picture of a fundamentally enslaved section of American society. . . living in huge buildings always burning with the slow implacable fires of human desperation...
Army game movies will go on the Lamont Forum Room screen at 8 p.m. tonight. Freshman Coach Henry Lamar will narrate the films, which are presented by the Student Council in conjunction with the H.A.A...