Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once Edda went to the cinema in Rome during her eighth month of pregnancy, and was publicly applauded. Doubtful it is if such a demonstration would now occur. The Countess is held by many Italians to be largely responsible for the Nazified laws that Italy has "imported" from Germany. One of these is the unpopular anti-Semitic law. The Cianos are firmly linked with the alliance with Germany, and the alliance is not dear to Italians...
...Actor Louis Hayward, who has made several false starts in cinema, his spirited attack on what the movie industry still calls a Douglas Fairbanks role may at last mean a place above the Hollywood salt. Born 30 years ago in Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year...
Walt Disney, as might have been expected, immediately offered to buy the exclusive Sonovox rights for cinema cartoons. Perhaps in the future Donald Duck will utter his irate comments in a real quacking duck's voice...
Favorite programs of Latin-Americans, it appeared, were news broadcasts, but they were also eager to hear such entertainers as Rudy Vallée, talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
Second Fiddle. Because Sonja Henie is still a celebrity-in-the-movies rather than a movie celebrity, a skater who plays in skating pictures, her cinema personality is closer to her real one than Hollywood usually allows. Many of her more literal-minded fans, indeed, have a tendency to interpret her pictures as autobiographical. In One In a Million her fans recognized the story of her painstaking rise to an Olympic title, coached and protected by a loving father who once had Olympic ambitions himself-a figure much like that jolly, bicycle-riding Oslo shopkeeper, Wilhelm Henie. When...