Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Red Skelton, 33, slap-happy radio and cinema comic, and ex-Starlet Georgia Maureen Davis, 25, his second wife (No. 1, Edna Borzage, is still his manager): their first child, a girl; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Valentina Marie. Weight...
...performances range from good through ragged to corny. Carnegie Hall's makers evidently tried hard not to mangle, and they recorded considerable stretches of the music, rather than cinema's customary flibbertigibbet tatters. Even so, two hours of this kind of frenzied anthologizing, however well meant, are exhausting. It is often said in defense of such musical popularization that it serves to interest many people in good music who might never otherwise learn to care for it. It might also be suggested that the effort could frighten many potential music lovers away...
...really interested in the English of our young people, the foundation must be laid long before Latin can affect the situation. Let us look to the English of the elementary school teacher, radio, cinema, comics...
...critical evaluation of The Macomber Affair [TIME, April 7], the Cinema editor evidently failed to read the original story very closely. States the editor: "According to Hemingway, [Mrs. Macomber] shoots [her husband] deliberately. ... In the movie, it was just a tragic accident-and the audience is left to make up its own mind." Writes the author: "Mrs. Macomber . . . had shot at the buffalo . . . and had hit her husband...
...appropriateness of Reader Claxton's gift is meekly acknowledged by TIME'S Cinema reviewer and researcher...