Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Army Air Forces Flight Sergeant John L. ("Jackie") Coogan, 28, onetime cinema juvenile, by Flower Parry Coogan, 21 ; after two years of marriage, his second, her first; in Hollywood. His first wife was Cinemactress Betty Grable...
...World's second largest cinema chain. Largest: Paramount, with about 1,400 theaters...
...excellent battle music which Prokofieff contrived for that sequence becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling scene in which soldiers drive civilians down a great flight of steps. in Odessa (Potemkiri) has also been tampered with -it is now a shambles instead of a few minutes of cinema as brilliantly organized as a movement in a Beethoven symphony...
...picture is worth seeing-its great excerpts from the past are tributes to directors of genius and to a nation which, for a while, gave them a chance to work as cinema talents have seldom been permitted to work. Even in mangled form, such scenes as the silver blaze of ripe wheat and sunflowers full of struggling men, crazed horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before...
Divorced. Ernst Lubitsch, 51, cigar-gnashing cinema director; by his second wife, Vivian Gaye Lubitsch, 33, literary agent; after nearly seven years of marriage; in Los Angeles...