Pat Suzuki

Pat Suzuki born Chiyoko Suzuki(Japanese: 鈴木千代子, September 22, 1930, Cressey, California) is an American popular singer and actress, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in the show.

Career

Suzuki is a Nisei or second-generation Japanese American. She was nicknamed "Chibi", which is Japanese for 'short person' or 'small child', as the youngest sister.

A few months after the United States entered World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt forced the Suzuki family and more than 110,000 other Japanese American residents of the U.S. Pacific coast states, to evacuate their homes and enter American concentration or detention camps. The Suzukis were sent to the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado.

During the early 1950s, she attended college at San Jose State University. After moving to New York, she obtained a part in a touring production of the play, The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Silver screen

A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years of the motion picture industry and passed into popular usage as a metonym for the cinema industry. The term silver screen comes from the actual silver (or similarly reflective aluminium) content embedded in the material that made up the screen's highly reflective surface.

Actual metallic screens are coming back into use in projecting 3-D films.

Characteristics

Silver lenticular (vertically ridged) screens, which are made from a tightly woven fabric, either natural, such as silk, or a synthetic fiber, were excellent for use with low-power projector lamp heads and the monochromatic images that were a staple of early projected images. Other silver screens are made by taking normal matte sheets and adhering silver dust to them; the effect is the same.

True silver screens, however, provide narrower horizontal/vertical viewing angles compared to their more modern counterparts because of their inability to completely disperse light. In addition, a single projection source tends to over-saturate the center of the screen and leave the peripheries darker, depending on the position of the viewer and how well adjusted the lamp head is, a phenomenon known as hot-spotting. Due to these limitations and the continued innovation of screen materials, the use of silver screens in the general motion picture exhibition industry has mostly been phased out.

Silver Screen (disambiguation)

Silver Screen may refer to:

Silver Screen

Silver Screen Cinemas was a multiplex cinema operator in Poland. In February 2008 it was announced that Silver Screen will merge with its rival Multikino. Since then all Silver Screen cinemas have been converted to Multikino brand, except a single one based in Łódź. Many customers are not pleased because of outlook of Multikino cinemas and low level of the personnel.

Silver Screen at its peak operated three cinemas in Warsaw, one in Gdynia and one in Łódź. The latest of the Warsaw cinemas, opened in the beginning of 2004 in the Targówek district, has about 2600 seats divided among twelve screens. It is one of the largest cinemas in Poland.

Locations

Silver Screen (magazine)

Silver Screen was an American monthly magazine focusing on the film industry. It had its first publication in November 1930, and continued publication through the 1970s. It positioned itself as a source for behind the scenes stories about the stars of movie industries. The publication contained articles about film personalities, relationships, fashion and the film companies. It also contained reviews of the new releases in the film industry.

History

The magazine began publication in November 1930, featuring a portrait of Greta Garbo on the cover. The publisher was Screenland Magazine, Inc., which also published Screenland, another monthly magazine about the film industry. The president of Screenland was Alfred A. Cohen, and the magazine's editor was Ruth Waterbury. By 1931 the magazine was claiming that they had the largest newsstand circulation of any publication dealing with the film industry. Eliot Keen, who had joined the magazine in 1930, took over the editor-in-chief duties for the September 1931 issue, a position he held until his death of a sudden heart attack in March, 1939, although he remained on the masthead through the June 1939 issue. He was replaced by Lester C. Grady for the July issue. Their advertising slogan was "Reflecting the Magic of Hollywood."