Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only men in the uniforms of the United Nations are admitted. Established by the American Theater Wing War Service, the Stage Door Canteen represents the joint efforts of the whole entertainment field (stage, cinema, vaudeville, radio, music) to give boys in the services a better time than they could get cruising through town and paying through their noses. With hundreds of people cheerfully providing time, skill and materials, a $20,000 reconstruction job was done on the theater basement for less than...
Died. Sidney R. Kent, 56, super-salesman of the cinema industry, president of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A onetime laborer and surveyor, he offered to work free for Famous Players-Lasky on a trial basis, within ten years was general manager. In 1932 he was called to take charge of tottering Fox Films, three years later was made president of the newly formed 20th Century-Fox at some $200,000 a year. In defense of the industry's high salaries, he once submitted: "It may be more money than bank presidents...
...Japan's successes have taken a 7% slice out of the U.S. cinema industry's already shaky foreign market; in normal times, gross film rentals from Japan, China, the East Indies and Straits Settlements amount to almost $6,000,000 (Java alone: $1,500,000). In Australia and New Zealand, 14% more of the industry's foreign revenue is at stake...
...Between-the-Sexes to the attention of its biggest audience yet. This semi-ludicrous, semipainful combat, which Thurber wrote all the way into a Broadway hit (with Co-Author Elliott Nugent) two years ago, is the most refreshing comic material Hollywood has encountered in a long time. The resulting cinema, though overlong and talky, is a delightful comedy charged with impish innuendo and raw laughter...
This well-pastried pie of sense and nonsense is ably dished out by Protagonists Fonda and de Havilland. Co-Author Nugent, who directed, fails to reduce it from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...