Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Cabinet was reformed, not only Pierre Laval, but also Minister of Public Instruction Georges Ripert was absent. Laval's powers over press, radio and cinema went by decree to Under Secretary Paul Baudouin. Minister of the Interior Marcel Peyrouton, who is also Chief of Police, emerged as the strong man of the weak men of France. Premier Pétain announced his intention of creating a Consultative Assembly to be composed of delegates from the provinces...
Least arty of all arts is the Hollywood cinema. But many a famed movie star, toiling under the burden of Hollywood's glamor and high salaries, has cursed a secret craving for the higher things. How great this craving has grown was made evident last fortnight when Los Angeles Art Dealer Robert Gump put on an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photographs and ceramics by celebrities of Southern California's social and cinema world-"important contributions to the Fine Arts by 30 outstanding personalities whose significance in their avocations is little known." Most presentable piece was a craftsmanlike etching...
...wedded DeWolf Hopper, Hedda was born Elda Furry near Altoona, Pa., changed her first name as well as her last after marrying Hopper, partly to distinguish herself from her predecessors (Ella, Ida. Edna and Nella), partly to comply with the instructions of a numerologist. Her long connection with the cinema dates back 25 years. Credited with knowing more extramarital yarns about cinemagnates than even the relentless Louella. Hedda was signed up for a Hollywood column three years ago on the recommendation of M. G. M.'s publicity office, soon established herself so firmly that she was inevitably wired...
...some fly-by-night operators decided homemade talkies might clear some easy pesos. They came out with a nice profit and racy roadsters, but gave Mexican cinema such a bad name it is still trying to recover...
...full canvas is as honest and acceptable a piece of western folklore as the cinema cameras have yet recorded. The topic has been so thoroughly covered from quickies on poverty row to DeMillian extravaganzas, so adroitly burlesqued in recent films like Rangers of Fortune and The Westerner, that otherwise good melodrama may seem to sophisticates slightly corny. But it is ripe, tasty corn...