Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bali protected it from foreign influence. He found on the walls of North Bali temples, cheek by jowl with bas-reliefs of gods and monsters, some comic-strip carvings showing a fat Dutchman drinking beer, a man cranking a car, a highway robbery modeled after a scene in a cinema...
Presiding over his radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...
...opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business men who generally had their secretaries put the calls through for them. It's Love I'm After, not a mugs' picture, needs no such furtive blurbing. It is refreshing, impudent fun: a buoyant cinema making faces at its precise old aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy...
...bookstore, no rental library except the new-book shelf at the public library; that while the circulation of library books doubled during the Depression, new books in general encountered ''creeping apathy." A possible explanation is that Americans love brightly-colored automobiles, flowers, bright clothing, scandals, fast-moving cinema, more than they like books. But the sale of novels like Gone With the Wind, which has now sold one copy for every hundred U. S. citizens, suggests that Americans will buy books under certain conditions. Another answer is the difficulty most people have in finding a bookstore where they...
...1920s signs began to appear on cinema theatres: "Twenty Degrees Cooler Inside. BRRH!" Cooling Manhattan's Rivoli Theatre in 1925 cost $65,000 but the Rivoli got that back in the first three months. Carrier systems went into the ape-house of the New York Zoological Park, into the White House and the Senate chamber, into the Secretariat in Delhi, India, into the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. By 1929 Carrier Engineering Corp. was doing an $8,000,000 a year business and retaining $672,000 as profit. Formed in 1930 was the present Carrier...