Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day (June 21) Committee. Other fathers picked as the best family men in their fields: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle ("Humanitarian Father"), Alben W. Berkley (radio), Rocky Marciano (sports), Melvyn Douglas (stage), Ezio Pinza (music), Danny Thomas (cinema), John Daly (TV). Cited as "Father's Favorite Female": Beatrice Lillie...
...Oldtime Cinema Soprano Jeanette (Naughty Marietta) MacDonald, after finishing up the concert season with recitals in some of the tonier Las Vegas gambling casinos, received an honorary Mus.D. degree from New York's Ithaca College for her "many contributions to the field of music...
...public to decide what comes next, and last week the theater owners of the U.S. were moving at top speed to give the public an early chance to decide. Thousands of them had signed orders for "all-purpose screens" that can show everything from Cinema-Scope on down...
Good for Gorillas. The difficulties of clasping a cinema cutie in this way, without getting a severe eyestrain, have been more than Hollywood can cope with, so far. In the first three pictures, the depth illusion could scarcely have been more cruelly mismanaged if Hollywood had deliberately set out to destroy the eyesight of the nation. For all their skill in 2-D photography, the technicians still knew little about stereoscopy. One expert solemnly told Hollywood that the stereocamera sees things just as human eyes do because its openings are fixed four inches apart-"just as human eyes...
...estranged wife, onetime Mexican Cinemactress Esperanza Baur, demanded $9,000 a month (he is offering $900) while her separate maintenance suit is being decided. Besides all the expenses of stardom, said Wayne, he had to cope with taxes and an extravagant wife. "I know it sounds ridiculous." sighed the cinema heman, whose 1952 income was estimated at $500,000 by his wife, but he and Mrs. Wayne "just couldn't make ends meet...