Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five hundred new cinemansions containing half a million new seats were built in 1947-the biggest year of theater construction since the booming '20s. This fact, announced by the trade magazine Boxoffice, seemed cause more for alarm than pride. For in the last three months more & more seats have been empty in U.S. movie houses. Only the showiest spectacles seemed sure to attract the customer's eye; three of Variety's top-grossing six were in Technicolor...
...Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy-breathing love scenes and Colman on elegance and versatility. Colman was equally proficient in beglamored melodrama (Beau Geste, which he still considers his best picture) and in drawing...
Died. Herbert J. ("Herb") Pennock, 53, slender, stylish Yankee southpaw during the golden '20s (and more recently general manager and revitalizer of the perennially futile Phillies); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Good News. Good tunes and June Allyson in a hearty revival of one of the best musicals of the '20s (TIME...
Class. Phil. 20s. Latin Palaeography--Reading and Research. Assistant Professor Elder...