Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another war but Manila's worst earthquake since 1882. Half an hour later it was followed by another almost as severe. One resident of nearby Cavite died of heart-failure. Sixty-two were injured, some by falling power lines, some in stampedes out of crowded cinema theatres. When the lights were finally turned on again, the Escolta, Manila's main street, was littered with broken glass, parts of the city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches...
...British musical in little more than a year to tackle the task of making Jessie Matthews as popular in the U. S. as she is in England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...
...year-old plumber and a garage proprietor, 64. In Brooklyn, a 37-year-old ex-convict, only seven months out of Sing Sing where he had been sent for a sex crime, was sentenced to 25-years-to-life for taking two girls, 8 and 10, to a cinema and carnally molesting them. Indicted in Brooklyn was another ex-convict, 49, and twice convicted of statutory offences against children. He had strangled and assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the basement of her tenement home. In Chicago, a 17-year-old high-school junior was convicted of assaulting...
Married. Louise Hovick, 23, famed Burlesque Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee until she turned to the cinema; to Robert Mizzy, 25, wealthy New York dental supply dealer. Unwilling to wait the three days required in California between posting of intention to marry and wedding, they hired a water taxi, went 20 miles out to sea and in the presence of two witnesses were married by the captain...
...several years he had been married to a slender, dark-eyed girl named Bella Finkel who had played opposite him in the Yiddish Theatre. After We Americans, Muni Weisenfreund went to Hollywood where, renamed Paul Muni, he made The Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie, Bordertown, Black Fury, Dr. Socrates, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Good...