Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Franz Josef's death in 1916, Käthi came on hard times. Because she knew so much of the inside story of the Habsburgs, she was plagued by publishers, syndicates, authors' agents, cinema representatives with fantastic offers. But with wonderful loyalty she refused them all, lived off occasional sales of the Gobelins, pictures, china, and jewels the Emperor had given her (once, after a hunt, he had sent her a boar dressed up in necklaces, earrings, diamond bracelets). She made only one important revelation: in 1931 she made it clear that the mysterious double death...
Last week the Catholic Sodality of Our Lady said its say on a movie that has not yet been made. The editors of The Queen's Work, Sodality magazine, sent an open letter to veteran Director Cecil Blount De Mille, who is planning a cinema on the Virgin Mary, titled The Queen of Queens. Director De Mille is an old hand at lavish religious spectacles (The King of Kings, Ten Commandments, The Sign of the Cross). But the Sodalists were disturbed to hear that he had bought the film rights to Family Portrait, a last-season Broadway play which...
...demanded $25 for newspaper interviews-and got it. She went into telegraph offices and insisted on dictating her wires. Even when, an old woman down on her luck, she went to Hollywood, she refused to kowtow, would ask world-famous movie stars whether they "were connected with the cinema." In no time she had alienated everybody who might have helped her: an awed Alexander Woollcott likened her to "a sinking ship firing on its rescuers." Though Stella Campbell published many of Shaw's letters to her, she did not publish all. Years ago the middle-aging philanderer, alarmed...
...real name is Janet Planner. She was born in Indianapolis 47 years ago. In her teens Janet tried the University of Chicago; tried by the University, she returned to Indianapolis. From 1915 to 1917 she held a job as cinema critic (she thinks she was the first reporter with that title) on the Indianapolis Star. In 1921 she arrived in Paris, inquisitive, amiable, amused. In 1925 she wrote her first letter for The New Yorker...
Throughout the world some 300,000,000 people every week hear symphonic music in the movies, whether they know it or not. Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed...