Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some $5,000 for production costs, $8,350 for air time. But the S. A. G.'s weekly $10,000, for which it volunteers the talents of 90% of Hollywood's great, goes straight into a Motion Picture Relief Fund, earmarked for the construction of a cinema old folks' home...
...some $90,000 previously collected. So the Fund hopes to start construction this year, on the broad green pasture of the San Fernando Valley, of a building with recreation halls, a big dining room, a dispensary, surrounded by cottages, to be named after the cinema's great...
Jean Hersholt (cinema's Dr. Dafoe) got Shirley as the Screen Guild Theatre's, Little Miss Christmas, by a simple device. He cornered Jimmy Roosevelt, took him out to the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. Jimmy put the all-important question to Mrs. Termle. "How would you like it, Shirley?" mamma asked...
Three years ago Broadcaster Aylesworth left NBC, took a new job as president and chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. Then in 1937, having done what he could for R.K.O., Producer Aylesworth gave up cinema, went to work for the management of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. No lover of the New Deal, he suited President Roy Howard's increasing distaste for the Roosevelt Administration. Last year Roy Howard upped Ray Allen Huber, publisher of the New York World-Telegram, made him general manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers and put Merlin Aylesworth in charge of the World-Telegram...
Last week the Daily Worker, Communist Party organ, fired its cinema critic. Reason, according to Critic Howard Rushmore: he refused to follow the party line in his review of Gone With the Wind. Told to write a blistering attack on Margaret Mitchell's $3,850,000 picture, Critic Rushmore (whose grandfather was a Confederate soldier) merely said it was a bore...