Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Colonel Blimp has come to his end under the Government of Winston Churchill, only historians can decide. But last week his body, semiofficially, was laid to rest in the longest, most expensive cinema ever made in Britain. Present to applaud The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at London's Odeon Theatre were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, many another bigwig...
...stern critics of the cinema Coney Island will be just one more tin bead on the rope Hollywood never ceases to string. But cinemaddicts who pay to get in will go easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain lights: this one shines irresistibly in such scenes as a brawl in a Coney harem. Here all the succulent paraphernalia of 1905 eroticism get heaved about in fearful confusion-carved brass hookahs caught in ripped gauze, brocaded draperies from the mysterious East, feathers and chandeliers, pillows of plush and satin, even...
Clara Bow, the cinema's "It" girl of the late '20s, was recovering from a nervous breakdown on the California ranch where she lives with her husband Rex Bell...
Hearts and Beasts. Cinema stars, in ratio to the tender age of their trade, took a less active part than they do today. Pin-up girls were as likely to come from the Police Gazette as from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket...
...years George Jessel has entertained in vaudeville, legit, radio, cinema, banquet halls, brothels. He has swung high & low, never quite ranking with the Cantors, Durantes, Wynns. One reason: he is more wisecracker than zany. Another may be: with his marital mishaps, he has had too much publicity in the wrong section of the papers. But for two things he is famed: as the Jazz Singer and as Momma Jessel's son Georgie...