Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awarding Critic Robertson $6,000 damages, the court gave M-G-M a brief lecture. A critic, said the court, "surely is to direct us to what is worth our while to see and to escape that which is unworthy of notice. I sometimes wonder whether the cinema public gets what it wants. It seems to get what is shoveled...
...picture is above all an artless fable, done in a color which is deep in the meaning of the scene-- no easy feat--and not something daubed on as a bemused after thought. The Russian cinema here has joined the English and French in challenging Hollywood's fatcat producers simply by making a picture with imagination and directness...
Eddie Cantor finally made the grade, though he was bringing up the rear. Coming: another biographical cinema saga-this one about the life of Eddie Cantor...
...university's first annual playwrighting festival, C.U. announced, will be sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and Broadway's American National Theater & Academy. The stage group will send lecturers, the cinema organization will lend a big movie star (none picked so far) to each of the seven festival productions. To get the project rolling, the Motion Picture Academy assigned one of Hollywood's best known front-office hands, Anita ("The Face") Colby, to work with C.U.'s Father Gilbert Vincent Hartke (TiME, March...
...describe the golden cinema business of the war years, Hollywood had used a special phrase-"boffo terrif." By last week Hollywood knew that it was time to use another phrase; things had changed. Movie attendance ("boffo") was down 25%-45% in extreme cases. In the nation's theaters, business had slipped until it was a mere "boffo sensational...