Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME was probably not aware of it, but the two Egans pictured in its Feb. 28 edition (Father Willis Egan in Religion and Richard Egan under Cinema) are brothers. I knew both of them quite well both on and off the campus of the University of San Francisco and have not yet quite fully recovered from the experience...
...most active spokesmen for the Lord in the U.S. are a pretty, 42-year-old woman and her cinema-famed husband who rarely travel on their tours without a $50,000 wardrobe. Movie Cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans top the bill at rodeos and circus stops across the country, where they put across a spiritual appeal that sends pistol-packing eight-year-olds off to Sunday school and their moist-eyed parents off to church. With their famed palomino horse, Trigger, they turn out a half-hour television show each week into which they are injecting more...
...audiophile is on the prowl for the utmost realism, he will have gone binaural, with double sound channels and speakers, in the manner of cinema's stereophonic sound. At present he can use this expensive setup only to play tape and the records of one small company (Cook...
...complaints are against "violence and brutality," not the overly spicy episodes. When one movie pictured a man clubbing another over the head with an old water hose the British censors brought out their scissors. "It's an act someone could imitate," they said. A particularly good example is that Cinema scope epic, "King of the Khyber Ribes." In one scene the natives have a rollicking time galloping back and forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing in only a few countries...
...book often has the pleasant, ungirdled quality of small-town gossip, is never bitter or doctrinaire about the South. It also manages to maintain a bit of suspense about the Wales-Greene mystery, though most of it gets lost in such a welter of flashbacks that even Cinema-Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand...