Word: cinemas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with three Jewish grandparents or two Jewish grandparents and a Jewish wife. They barred most such men from all but minor public jobs, requiring incumbent Jewish officeholders to resign within two months; from positions in the Army, Navy, Air Force; from jobs as teachers; from positions in press, radio, cinema. Vichy was very proud that these decrees were milder than Germany's-that Jews may retain civil rights as citizens. Some professions were not purged...
...Going into the gloom of dark cinema houses, people are likely to stumble, bump into others. Ushers with flashlights are nuisances; small lamps placed near the aisle floors illuminate only small areas. American Cyanamid Co. announced what it considers a better idea: aisle rugs treated with fluorescent dyes, bathed by invisible ultraviolet radiation from small tubes. Such rugs glow softly all over, interfere with nothing on the screen. General Electric's House of Magic at the New York World's Fair has a fluorescent aisle...
Since then over 600 commercial products have borne his name, including dolls, jewelry, fountain pens, wallpaper, soap, and 90 cinema shorts have featured him. For three years Segar's sailor, who derives his prodigious strength from spinach, advertised Wheatena, then Popsicles, on the air. In 1935 Popeye paid Artist Segar $100,000 a year...
Christmas in July (Paramount), previously titled Cup of Coffee and Ants in Their Pants, is the cinema success about poor people in Manhattan which, after so many recent tries, the law of averages made inevitable. Written and directed by Hollywood's latest Fair-Haired Boy-kinetic Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty)-produced for a paltry $325,000, it once again gives the lie to the arbitrary Hollywood assumption that a film's quality is in direct proportion to its cost...
...grounds. Embroiled in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Calif, last week was a smart, grey, stocky art collector named Dr. U. (for Ulrich) L. (for he won't say what) Di Ghilini. Dr. Di Ghilini is a magician, an adept at exposing fake mediums, who baffles and intrigues the cinema...