Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, SEPT. 22, IS UNFAIR AND UNTRUE WHEN IT INSINUATES THAT "LOUELLA PARSONS DAY" IN DIXON, ILL. WAS USED TO EMBARRASS CINEMA STARS ALREADY DATED UP FOR THE LEGION CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE OR THAT "RIVALRY RUINED THE REVELRY "TRUE, MISS PARSONS, AT DIXON'S REQUEST, INVITED CINEMA CELEBRITIES TO COME HERE AND THEY DID, TO HELP MAKE THE GREATEST CELEBRATION OF ITS KIND EVER IN DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS BUT THEY WERE DIXON'S INVITATIONS AND DIXON SET THE DATE MANY MONTHS AGO AND WITH NO INKLING THAT IT INTERFERED WITH THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION. SO FAR AS DIXON IS CONCERNED...
...well-worn but still resilient thread on which the new Abbott musical strings its bright songs and scenes: what might happen if a waning cinema sweater girl were to accept an invitation to a prom at a modest Pennsylvania prep school. Known as "Winsocki," this institution of middle learning is full of agile juveniles, whose antics make anyone over voting age feel a trifle creaky...
Nice British quip: Pilot Power, off for Dunkirk, asks of a returning fighter pilot: "What's it really like over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as the Battle of Waterloo-has a camera angle that is certainly non-Axis. Isolationist Senators might well call Yank pro-British propaganda. Even more obviously it is pro-box-office propaganda...
...display at the local cinema is the umpteenth installment of the Hardy family saga. If you've liked its predecessors, you're sure to enjoy this one, too. This time Andrew Rooney goes out into the cold, cold world to seek his fame and fortune. At the end of a thirty-day trial period he is to report to his father as to whether he thinks he will continue working or take a four-year recess to go to college. We are happy to announce that he has decided in favor of an academic life. We are also happy...
Like most of the cinema's attempts to remake successful plays, Retirement is long on dialogue and plot, short on action. Although Cameraman George Barnes does his cinematic best to focus the story through his lens, his range is restricted mostly to devising new angles and lighting for the same old people in the same old room. He makes a noble attempt. The atmosphere of Retirement is all melodrama and a moor wide...