Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London had got two new Noel Coward plays last week, with Coward starring in both of them. If the audiences hoped for something with the drama of Coward's cinema tribute to the Royal Navy, In Which We Serve (TIME, Dec. 28), they were disappointed. Present Laughter is another of Coward's smooth, neatly frappéed cocktails, and This Happy Breed is a wholesome and slightly doughy shepherd...
Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...
Admiral William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, no longer had cause to complain that the facts of Allied aid were being withheld from the Russians (TIME, March 15). The exchange of information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
When paper rationing froze Hollywood's magazine linage last year, and cut the free newspaper publicity customarily given to cinema, moviemakers bought more newspaper linage (up about 10% in 1942) and turned to radio. Some immediate results...
...amazement, Paramount has discovered that its own Cecil B. De Mille, cinema's best-known director, is better known for his radio work than for his pictures...