Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costello, fat & funny, is a great clown. Bud Abbott, skinny & sour, is a first-rate straight man. On their own, the two can be counted on to supply plenty of low-comedy guffaws. But greedy Universal has almost squeezed the last laugh out of them before their first cinema year...
...long arm of Hollywood reaches into every province of the manners and mores of our time; it does not, except obliquely and occasionally, touch the ideologies of our day." In 1936 Pope Pius XI testified to the importance of the cinema by devoting a special papal encyclical to it. So did Clark Gable when he took off his shirt in It Happened One Night and revealed that he wore no undershirt. That gesture cost U.S. men's underwear manufacturers a 40-50% cut in business with-in the year...
Until he retired a couple of years ago, Serge Eisenstein, Russia's top-notch producer-director, set the pace for film-makers in Hollywood, as well as in his own country. "Alexander Nevsky," which opened last night at the Fine Arts, marks his return to favor and to the cinema world...
Veronica Lake, according to studio publicity, gets kissed nine times in her new picture, to make up for a completely kissless cinema past...
...many as were made elsewhere in all Russia. There have been many conversions: the Tagil Car Works is now producing military vehicles; the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant now makes tanks; factories in Novosibirsk mass-produce military-type skis. The diversity is surprising: the auxiliary capital produces carburetors, armatures, railway equipment, cinema apparatus, tractor parts, tubes, leather goods, foodstuffs...