Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in January of 1941 that the moguls of the movies first heard of the institution on the Charles. In that month Whitman Hobbs in an obscure article buried deep in the Lampoon, gave his impressions of the cinema "worsts" of the year. For a month nothing happened. Then the shrewd press agent of one of the forty or so actors and actresses given the Hobbsian Academy award saw the potentiality of the article. The resulting famous altercation between "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan and the 'Poon became known all over the country. It was the only incident that...
Thus do the Brothers Warner introduce their cinema version of Author Hartzell Spence's biography of his father (One Foot in Heaven). It is a notable adaptation. The lively, humane, very worldly doings of Parson Spence have been transferred to celluloid with intelligence and charm; for the first time Hollywood has created a U.S. pastor with marrow in his bones. Human and humorous, Heaven is a bracing pastor's-eye-view of the Midwest U.S. of two wars...
...Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...
...history of his own ideas. Actually they have not changed very much; but the things about which he had ideas have changed. The happily and giddily clowning U.S. of the 1920s was Mencken's raw meat. He could not believe in the Depression, pointing derisively to jampacked cinema houses and highways full of colliding cars, until -so one story goes-friends showed him a bread line; then he was visibly moved. What would the Mencken who made such scathing fun of "Dr. Coolidge" and "Dr. Hoover" have thought of the Mencken of 1936, who traipsed along in a Landon...
...Oomph Girl's latest episode takes place in the lair of the Princeton Tiger, but like many of her cinema appearances, it has that faintly reminiscent "this-is-where-I-came-in" odor...