Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first stage it is possible for a candidate to be personally known to a majority of the electors. At higher stages the reputation of the candidate is increasingly if not entirely his press, radio and cinema reputation. In the Soviet Union the press, the radio and the cinema are 100% controlled by the Soviet State and the Communist Party. No other party is permitted to exist. There is no opposition press. The new Constitution for the first time makes the vote of a peasant equal the vote of a townsman. No one may be nominated except at a meeting...
Uprose in Moscow to settle this point famed Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet prosecutor in countless "Propaganda Trials" (TIME, April 24, 1933 et seq.). Technically it is not Vishinsky, State Public Prosecutor, who interprets the Constitution or the laws, but years of Soviet press, radio and cinema propaganda have made his ominous features spell THE LAW to millions of Russians. "It is perfectly true," declared Vishinsky, that the religious communes are "legally registered societies" within the meaning of Article 56. Nevertheless and without explaining how he arrived at his conclusion, Prosecutor Vishinsky concluded by simply postulating that "only those registered societies...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...Thin Ice", now at the University Theatre, has surprisingly enough a proper mixture of the elements of cinema entertainment. Romance, comedy, music, skating, and even a plot contribute in turn to a thoroughly enjoyable picture...
...accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...