Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your review of the picture, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in the Sept. 1 issue, you say there have been two previous cinema versions of this famous shocker, one by John Barrymore in 1920 and the second one by Fredric March in 1931. Please permit me to correct you; there was still another version, which as a small boy I saw in 1912 or 1913. The picture made such an impression on me, resulting in several nightmares, that I still have vivid recollections of it; the name of the actor who portrayed the dual role was King Baggot...
...cropped up again. They are the raucous, riotous, wenching duo, Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg, who first appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...
Along the same lines as a forthcoming cinema with McLaglen & Lowe, Call Out the Marines, the radio show is written by eagle-beaked, serious-faced John P. Medbury, veteran newspaper humorist and radio gagster. Like most Medbury scripts, this one takes full advantage of his enormous library of humor, which includes everything from the Encyclopedia of Comedy to 10,000 Jokes, Toasts and Stories. He has written for Burns & Allen, Olsen & Johnson, Fred Astaire...
...natives of West Africa's Gold Coast love the cinema. Especially do they love films with an African setting in which big Paul Robeson is supported by a small black cherub named Bob Papafio. The son of Big Papafio, an itinerant pugilist who fought himself out in England, Bob was discovered by Actor Robeson and given his first part in Sanders of the River. But Bob Papafio will make no more films for a while. Last week TIME'S resident correspondent in Liberia, Henry B. Cole, told...
...this everything, M.G.M.'s Lady Be Good has salvaged only two of the Gershwin melodies: the title song and Fascinating Rhythm. Around these still glittering butterfly relics three studio scripters (Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper, John McClain) have spun one of the longest, dullest plots in many a cinema season...