Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evenings, there was open-air cinema. Cecil B. De Mille had flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
...During the Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night...
...representatives in Italy, noting the fate of the Board of Censors, trembled for the future of their cinema, wished earnestly that it had not committed the grievous error of showing Italian "human landscapes immersed in endless fogs...
...Mussolini decided immediately to ban the offending cinema, he would have done exactly what Great Britain's Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association did in 1925 to Director Carl Laemmle's Phantom of the Opera.* Shrewd, Director Laemmle let it be rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...
...course when the film finally flickered in London it contained no stimulus for bashful but possible recruits. British retribution, speedy, came a few days after the premiere. The cinema was banned...