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GETTY-LUCE: Finally, we can get started, Kynaston, my dear. Your aunt is such a nuisance! I must advise you as a friend-- she could ruin your chances to be a big...even a major star!

KYNASTON: A star! You mustn't say I've blown my chance, Uncle Donnie! I'll do whatever it takes to be in motion pictures!
(Above) Clip from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Charles Coburn as "Piggy."
PHILCO: Years will pass before we can manufacture a curved-glass, photon-sensitive screen.

On the other hand, an article in this month's Argosy says Tesla invented a broadcast system using nothing but a Dixie cup and a tungsten wire! Obviously, Consolidated Edison suppressed it.
VERONICA: This canister blankets the room with a cloud of aluminum silicate particles. For a short while, the cloud is an instant, three-dimensional projection matrix for your image transmission system.Voila!
Veronica throws a nasty-looking switch. At that precise moment, Kynaston long-steps into the laboratory wearing nothing but her slip and followed in hot pursuit by creepy Don Getty-Luce, his inner self revealed.