Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warwick Evans. He is now with the Pro Arte Quartet, which is attached to the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Jan. 27), has been playing in California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...
...cinema's quickest-rising starlet of the year, tiny, honey-haired honey Constance Keane Detlie (Veronica Lake), gave birth to a daughter (6 lb., 2 oz.) at a Hollywood hospital. Her husband is Art Director John Detlie. Same day her leading man, William Holden, was in the hospital for an appendectomy...
Five members of The Foxes' Broadway cast play their original roles in the cinema version. They are of immense help to the slick production, especially Patricia Collinge, whose portrait of the well-bred, gentle wife of one of Regina's villainous brothers is played with a poignant anguish that is not in the repertory of most Hollywood actresses...
Died. James Stuart Blackton, 66, one of the first large-scale cinema producers; of auto-accident injuries; in Hollywood. With a partner he organized Vitagraph in 1897. The firm was sold to Warners in 1925 for a reported $1,000,000. Blackton went on relief...
...More cinema stars than had ever turned out for any public occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...