Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along toward dawn one morning last week, Screen Actor Humphrey Bogart was sitting, in person, in Manhattan's not quite haut monde saloon, the Stork Club. It was the hour when it is virtually impossible to decide whether a rumba band goes bonkle bonkle tonk, or tonkle tonkle bonk; when waiters' arches ache, and blondes brush the hair out of their eyes in a queenly way. Bogart, who was sipping happily on a drink, decided to send out for two 22-lb. stuffed pandas...
...Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). Homecoming, with Clark Gable and Lana Turner...
...scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends. Example: no sooner had Paramount proved that a spicy James M. Cain story like Double Indemnity could be put on the screen than Wald got to work on Cain's Mildred Pierce...
Madeleine Carroll, stage and screen star, will make her first appearance at Harvard tomorrow, Dr. William Van Lennup, curator of the Harvard Teacher Collection in Houghton Library, announced yesterday...
...Facts of Life" makes no attempts at seriousness and thereby avoids all the vices. A young Englishman's adventures in Monte Carlo against his father's advice makes for one of the lightest and pleasantest brief moments to flicker across the screen in some time; but it is better seen that talked about...