Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys ashore soon found their way to Reykjavik's only cinema and saw Golden Boy. They went to the music halls and saw very proper classical shows. Despite tight restrictions on liquor sales, they managed to find a nip here & there. They wandered into shops and had a fine time trying to make the shopkeepers (who had learned the broad English words of the British) catch onto the American twang...
...hand at snaring such top-flight cinema talent for noncommercial rates is sharp-tongued, tapir-nosed Charles Vanda, 38, producer of Forecast. He also produces Lolly Parsons' Hollywood Premières and the Hollywood end of the U.S. Treasury's Millions for Defense. Acidulous on all matters, particularly Hollywood, Vanda is enormously popular with reporters, is privily referred to by actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy...
...Hollywood's boast that 80,000,000 people attend the movies weekly is exaggerated. That is the number who stay away from the cinema each week. Those from five to 85 who do go average 54,275,000 a week. In 1940 those admissions added up to $700,000,000 cash-far short of the billion-dollar-a-year box-office gross claimed by the Hays office...
...casual moviegoers, the Drive-In offers innumerable luxuries. It is a solution for the moviegoer's car-parking problem, for persons elderly, ill and crippled, for those who don't like to dress for the downtown cinema, for parents with no one to mind the children, for those who like to talk and smoke during a performance, and for young bloods looking for a place to make two-bit love...
Time was when the Marx Brothers' talent for violent lunacy whelped the belly-wrinkling hysteria of such superb stage and cinema farces as The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera. Big Store is just the Marx Brothers nostalgically going through the motions of helping Detective Wolf J. Flywheel (Groucho Marx), Housekeeper Wacky (Harpo Marx) and Pianist Ravelli (Chico Marx) catch a killer in the bargain basement. Absurdity (as in the incredible chase sequences) is substituted for comedy...