Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hustles off to a Reno vacation in search of romance. She loses $10,000 to Stephen McNally, owner of a gambling casino, who offers to swap her I.O.U. for a summer of tutoring for his little girl (Gigi Perreau). Linda reluctantly agrees, protesting so much that it takes no cinema connoisseur to see that her annoyance will soon blossom into love...
Home to Innocence. Greene took his instruction from a priest named Father Trollope. For three months, he argued his uncertainties almost daily. "Riding on trams in winter past the Gothic hotel, the super-cinema, the sooty newspaper office where one worked at night, passing the single professional prostitute trying to keep the circulation going under the blue and powdered skin, one began slowly, painfully, reluctantly to populate heaven." A few weeks after Greene completed his instruction, he and Vivien were married by Father Trollope...
Died. Anton Frederik Philips, 77, co-builder with his brother Gerard of Europe's vast Philips electrical products corporation, one of the world's biggest, which makes everything from light bulbs to cinema equipment, employs 80,000 workers in plants in 45 countries; of a heart ailment; in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, which the Philips brothers transformed from a village to an industrial city...
...been fighting the Tory all my life ever since I was a nipper. Once we are returned to the House of Commons, we can resume that other argument." With that, fighting Nye addressed himself to the faults of Winston Churchill and the sins of the Tories. In the Arcadia cinema next door, Attlee murmured: "We may have our differences; we may have our disputes, but we all have the same aim . . . the brotherhood...
...between movies and opera, but it still leaves the gap wide open. Shooting in Rome to gain atmosphere and save money, Composer-Librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti has preserved the musical values of his successful short opera while turning it into a curious mixture of sometimes effective, sometimes static cinema sequences...