Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the Mountbattens were visiting the U.S., beauteous Lady Louis publicly danced the Charleston with Fred Astaire. Soon afterward, London was given to understand that Queen Mary disapproved of dancing with cinema actors, and Lord Louis was blackballed from the sacrosanct Royal Yacht Squadron...
...three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
...Mutual, with a million young listeners who have the cowboys-&-Indians habit, had to have a substitute for the Lone Ranger. Just in time, the forsaken network remembered Red Ryder, "six feet of redheaded trigger lightning," famed in boys' books, N.E.A.-syndicated comic strips, cinema serials, and, oddly enough, first serialized for radio by the Blue, 16 weeks ago on the Pacific Coast...
Helene Costello, cinema star of the silents, sister of Dolores, filed a petition in bankruptcy in Los Angeles. Liabilities: $2,758. Assets...
Swakopmund. "Its buildings might have been lifted bodily from any small north German seaside town: its hotels-the Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are still wearing their blue German peaked caps, the schoolboys, their green or red caps with gold braid...