Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arabian Nights is a forerunner of a flood of Technicolor pictures scheduled to come from Hollywood in this year. Last year Hollywood made 25 feature films in color, some 10% of its total footage. It now has 36 in production or preparation. One big studio (20th Century-Fox) plans to make 25% of its features in color. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corp., which processes color film for all the studios, is turning out some 7,000,000 feet a month. But not many of the feet will be as pretty as Miss Montez...
Within Russia's immense disorderliness, Stalin faced the fundamental problems of providing enough food for the people and improving their lot through 20th-century industrial methods. He collectivized the farms and he built Russia into one of the four great industrial powers on earth. How well he succeeded was evident in Russia's world-surprising, strength in World War II. Stalin's methods were tough, but they paid...
Perhaps the most harassed of U.S. musical institutions, the League of Composers celebrated its 20th birthday last week with a concert in Manhattan's Town Hall. No crowd clamored to buy standing room. But to many musicians it was an important event. For 20 years the league had been almost the only hand to uphold the frequently flickering torch of contemporary high-brow music...
Died. Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, 79, son of the 20th President, longtime (1908-34) president of Williams College; in Williamstown, Mass. He was U.S. Fuel Administrator in World War I, and responsible for the various heatless days, lightless nights, gasless Sundays of that...
Life Begins at 8:30 (20th Century-Fox) combines the talents of one of Hollywood's funniest script writers, Nunnally Johnson, and one of Broadway's funniest actors, Monty Woolley. Unfortunately it also is based on one of last season's dullest Broadway plays, Yesterday's Magic. The result is not worthy of Johnson & Woolley, but they contrive to make the film fairly entertaining...