Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very modestly on the shortest possible shoestring," explained General Manager John T. McManus, former TIME and PM writer and leftish ex-president of the New York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner, Anna Louise...
...Scars. Old (85), rich Charles Pathé, now in retirement at Monte Carlo, had hatched the bird back in 1897. "I did not invent the cinema," he once said, "but I industrialized it." On money made from selling the first Edison Kinetoscopes (the original peephole movie), he launched into making film, cameras and movies on his own, bought and built theaters, pioneered newsreels and the first amateur movies...
...less happy news of Hollywood, see CINEMA...
...later he joined TIME'S staff as a writer. TIME was fully aware of Chambers' political background, believed in his conversion, and has never since had reason to doubt it. In the past nine years Chambers has written and edited TIME stories in such varied fields as Cinema, Religion, Books, and Foreign News; in the judgment of his fellow workers, he has proved himself an outstanding journalist. TIME believes that Chambers' penetrating knowledge of the ways of Communism, at home and abroad, has been extremely valuable to TIME-and to TIME'S readers...
Married. Roy Del Ruth, 52, veteran cinema director-producer (DuBarry Was A Lady, The Babe Ruth Story); and Winnie Lightner, fortyish, boisterous cinecomic of the early talkies; each for the second time; in Riverside, Calif...