Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve...
...promising than pictures. Printed news has a strong tendency to be news of the abnormal or disastrous events of life; the camera's patient eye finds equal fascination in the characteristic doings of people, the enduring and mysterious images of places. Already a supranational language of entertainment, the cinema and the news photograph, with television, may in the future become a world-teaching art which artists of all nations may practice...
...editors, five have died. Quite a few of the others have gone on to fame elsewhere. Two have won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry: Archibald MacLeish and the late Stephen Vincent Benét. Publisher John Farrar was our first books editor, and Wells C. Root, our first cinema reporter, is now one of Hollywood's top flight scenarists...
...Talk. In Bolton "the pub has more buildings, holds more people, takes more of their time and money than church, cinema, dance hall and political organizations put together." Of the city's 180,000 population, about 27,000 (15%) frequented 300 pubs with a round score of 20,000 steady drinkers averaging three pints a day. Of these "regulars," 90% were from 25 to 55 years...
...Moon Is Down (20th Century-Fox) presents the cinema audience with a ready-made controversy. As novel and play, John Steinbeck's fable about a Nazi garrison's nervous breakdown in Norway kicked up a loud literary row. Were Steinbeck's Nazis softer than the real thing...