Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luxuries that are near-necessities will take some beatings, but there is still no sign that most of them will disappear, or even become seriously scarce. Among the least-threatened peacetime pleasures is cinema; the paper shortage has blown up (TIME, June 1), so newspapers and magazines will continue, unless advertising is taxed to death-in fact, in most cases they are officially regarded as strategic morale-builders. Cigarets are being produced in the most enormous, quantities in history (though they are also being taxed at record levels); cigars and pipe tobacco are booming, too. WPB has gone on record...
Superman in the Volcano (Paramount] is the Man of Steel's eighth cinemappearance since the movies muscled in on his vast newspaper-magazine-radio audience (estimate: 50,000,000) last September. The picture also highlights a new U.S. cinema fashion: some 20,000.000 Supermaniacs can hardly wait for Superman's ten-minute, one-reel cartoon to appear once a month in more than 7,000 U.S. movie houses...
Seven-year-old Larry Simms, the "Baby Dumpling" of the cinema's Blondie & Dagwood series, demanded $118,000 damages from radio's Baby Dumpling, 22-year-old Leone le Doux (a she). Grounds: imitation...
...This picture is his last for a major studio. Following a Hollywood procedure that may become a trend, he has formed his own movie unit (Cagney Productions, Inc.), plans to produce his own pictures for United Artists release. Warner Bros, will miss him. For the last twelve years the cinema's most talented tough guy has been his studio's top money maker...
...make the world one community for the teaching, healing saving of Homo Tewler—for the establishment, indeed, of the Wellsian World State towards which this volume like much of his life's work, is a combined gadfly and sales talk. These instruments are chiefly the radio and the cinema—what Wells calls "canned teaching." The knowledge Wells would have them impart is chiefly scientific. As a reason for remaking the world to redeem not the soul but the dim wits of Teddy Tewler, Author Wells's program raises a simple question: "Is it worth...