Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because acting and overfeeding caused brown pouches to appear under his melancholy eyes, the face of King Tut, famed cinema dog, was lifted last week by one Dr. G. M. Eisenhower in Hollywood...
With the new Soviet anti-religious campaign now in full cry (TIME,Jan. 14), Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky released, last week, a cinema drama called Salamander. Heroine: Mme. Lunacharsky, strikingly beautiful, known to her intimates as "Natalia." Author: M. Lunarharsky...
...week whether he would endorse the Film Arts Guild (Manhattan organization for encouraging artistic films). Theodore Dreiser, novelist, said: ''The influence of the movies on the American public has been greater than any other force. . . . My sympathies and my appreciation will always be ... opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated on the bastardization of the cinema not only with wearisome nonsense in regard to sex and romance but now with the talking pictures, the aim of which latter apparently is to exhume old stage plays which can be reproduced...
...Manhattan. Bourjois grew to be the third largest manufacturer of perfumes in the world. Pierre Wertheimer, within the last few years, has given more and more interest to breeding race horses at his 14th century barony in the Gironde district, to hunting at his lodge 100 miles from Paris. Cinema. With $1,600 saved from the cloak & suit business William Fox bought his first theatre in 1904. Last week he called himself the world's largest operator of cinema houses. He cited figures. He had just added a new group of 40 independent theatres in and near Manhattan, with...
Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, onetime cinema funnyman, was haled into court in Culver City, Calif., last week, to show cause why his roadhouse should not be padlocked as a nuisance...