Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Invaders (Columbia) is a Made-in-England propaganda film so crowded with talent that it can afford to use such notables as Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey and Laurence Olivier as bit players. Eighteen months in the making, it is more skillful as cinema than as propaganda...
...lilting bounce. North Americans got their first inklings of samba rhythms three years ago, when seductive Carmen Miranda came up from Rio to shine on Broadway in The Streets of Paris, became really aware of it last spring, when she samba-sang and samba-danced in a cinema, That Night in Rio (TIME, March 24). Since then the samba has been winning more & more fans. By last week...
Just when vacation trips to the East and West Indies have been crippled by war, up comes Hollywood with a couple of vicarious cruises-and no more expensive than the price of a cinema ticket...
Along the main roads, trolleys, automobiles and rickshas carried people home from work, off for shopping, to friends for a drink. Cars drew up to the Raffles Hotel and disgorged their passengers in time for the daily tea dance. Outside a cinema people lined up to see Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew in Reaching for the Sun. Eric Davis, director of the Malayan Broadcasting Corp., cracked open a letter from a gramophone concern, read that a certain tune "is unavailable for broadcast without special permission of Messrs. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse...
Unlike his night-blooming colleague, meticulous Robert Stevenson, 36, moved into his directorship with the precision of a mathematics teacher. Son of an English businessman, he took a "first" in mathematics at Cambridge University. A postgraduate thesis on the psychology of the cinema got him so interested in the subject that he persuaded Gaumont-British to take him on as a reader...