Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malta became vexed when its Prime Minister was assigned a place with representatives of colonies, instead of in Westminster Abbey with the other Commonwealth Prime Ministers. After the Maltese Assembly voted to cancel all coronation festivities on the island, and Maltese cinema audiences began booing newsreel pictures of the Queen and Philip, Prime Minister Churchill set things aright by assuring Malta's Prime Minister a place with the other P.M.s...
...cinema producer had a story too. Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen testified that he was a member of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1947, and contributed no less than $40,000 to its causes. He recalled the names of 57 other Hollywood characters (most of them had been named before) whom he had known as Communists. In 1951, Rossen refused to tell the committee about his Communist past. Since then, he said, he had decided that he should speak out for "the security and safety of the nation...
Backstage in Haifa's Armon Cinema last week, Violinist Jascha Heifetz was tuning up for his afternoon recital when a messenger handed him a letter. It was from Israel's Minister of Justice (and chairman of the Israel Philharmonic), relaying a request from the Ministry of Education and Culture that Heifetz drop Richard Strauss's Sonata from his program "because of the strong feeling in Israel against the playing of modern German music...
...million televiewers got a look at Hollywood's most ballyhooed annual event. The TV technicians, bossing the whole show, did a slick job of switching back & forth between Hollywood and Manhattan's International Theater, where a junior edition of the ceremonies was under way. All the cinema queens, some appearing for the first time on TV, looked as gorgeous as they ever did, but a few seemed to miss the careful direction they get in films. The cameras might have been less rigid (the losers in the audience were ignored, even though Bob Hope had advised watching them...
Perhaps in a sentimental mood, the academy gave the Oscar for "best picture" to Cinema Pioneer Cecil B. DeMille, 71, for his moneymaking circus extravaganza, The Greatest Show on Earth (already No. 2 on Hollywood's list of all-time big grossers...