Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsie Ferguson, other-worldly beauty of the silent cinema (Peter Ibbetson, with Wallace Reid), first starred on Broadway in 1909, was set for a Manhattan comeback 13 years after she had retired. She will play a wandering house guest in Beyond the Farthest Star, a play Author Rose Franken describes as plotless. Miss Ferguson...
...Hope got back from Britain shortly after a brush with Westminster Abbey authorities. The comedian and a cinema company with a load of cinematic baggage had piled into the Dean's Yard to shoot some scenes, promptly got bundled out again. They had neglected to ask permis sion. Title of the movie: Welcome to Great Britain...
Gloria Swanson, No. 1 fashion plate among the silent cinema sirens, gave Interviewer Elsa Maxwell her considered opinion on the reason she had always had to play seductresses: "Because I was quiet, people always thought I knew more about life and love than...
Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles...
Giggling Proletariat. Cinema houses stopped charging admission. At bars, all drinks were on the house. At banks, tellers gave away packs of $100 bills. Free love was freer than ever. The Mayor resigned to play with toy electric trains...