Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Division has lately spent $200,000 for recreation and welfare, hopes soon to get $2,500,000 more from Congress. Biggest morale prop is the cinema: the Division already has more than 100 theatres at Army posts, expects to set up many more in new camps for conscripts and National Guardsmen. Colonel Pfeil has found that soldiers prefer Westerns, Hedy Lamarr, Ann Sheridan (in that order), dislike Connie Bennett and English actors...
...inconspicuous as an extra's check, the new 20th Century Silenced Camera purred away on a Hollywood sound stage last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset...
...restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom they chivalrously adopt...
...means surprising is the fact that war brought a box-office boom to British cinema theatres. It was to be presumed that cinemaddicts would seek escape in rip-roaring thrillers, wacky comedies, sprightly musicals. Not at all. Last week their favorites were grim documents of the Fleet in action, airmen swooping, bombs falling, factories roaring-anything and everything to do with war. Along with these rousing shots of what people see every day the Ministry of Information was offering a surprise package in a group of five-minute shorts...
...business, frowns and whines through a kissless marriage, shuffles around town in game pursuit of a gold digger (Virginia Bruce) with a personality as hard as his best cement. Some witty, well-timed dialogue plus the articulate gestures and grimaces of paunchy Funnyman Robert Benchley, who gives his first cinema demonstration of his finesse with the mandolin, keep the film from becoming an also...