Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yung Wang, button-cute "Helen Hayes of China," was studying at Bryn Mawr. At 26, the prewar cinema star had an age of peril behind her. She had been caught by the Jap invasion of Hong Kong, slipped out disguised as a ragged halfwit, ultimately made a 40-day hairbreadth journey to the safety of Chungking. For two years she had entertained troops, lived in the front lines, traveled on foot with a force that moved so exclusively at night that it became known as "The Cat's Eye Army." But last week at Bryn Mawr she still looked...
...transition experienced by Soviet literature, and gives the reader familiar only with Russian classics a basis for appreciation of contemporary Soviet effort. More detailed articles by Professors Cross and Dana on Russian literature and drama as well as J. Leyda's review of the marine engineer turned guerilla after cinema complete the issue's critical material. Many readers will find these articles unnecessarily full of unfamiliar names, but the net effect is a fine picture of the creative artistry which, under government auspices, is continuing to develop new and popular art forms...
...something over 70,000 people paid one peso each to view El Fakir. They included 25 doctors (a vacationing U.S. doctor tried to wiggle El Fakir's toes, caused him much pain), five bull fighters, 65 Mexican cinema actors, one ex-President (Portes Gil), two boxers, two wrestlers, and a lady editor from the erstwhile antagonist Novedades, who wrote: "After knowing him I have been enchanted." A radio station broadcast reports of El Fakir's condition and a movie theater combined a newsreel of El Fakir with Disney's Bambi...
Double-Draw. Last week Hope was back home again to resume another life in which he is tops. Between radio and cinema, he bests all rivals as a double-draw; the name Hope has become a radio synonym for Tuesday night, has helped make the Road to Morocco almost as famous as the Road to Mandalay. Yet his huge mike-and-movie success is less than a lustrum old. And it is so huge it obliterates all memory of Hope as a vaudeville headliner and a Broadway star...
These Are the Men takes news shots of the Nazi leaders howling their wares (in German) and puts into their mouths (in English) thumbnail autobiographies, each of which is a monstrous self-indictment. This shrewd cinema effect is muddled more than helped by a gifted but rhetorical commentary by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas...