Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in Siamese history, evening dress was required in the cinema. It was a premiere to rival any in Hollywood, and the audience of Bangkok's elite, many of whom arrived in shiny new Dodges and Buicks, were full of expectancy as they settled in their seats to watch the movie version of Anna and the King of Siam...
Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, café and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight...
...Action, consisting mainly of knife-throwings and wisecracks, moves from California mansion to insane asylum to Washington hotel to San Quentin Prison, as the two principals frantically pursue a little map locating a fabulous deposit of uranium ore, a substance which seems to have supplanted buried treasure in the cinema palaces these days...
Small merchants lost trade; florists found that people who could not read about deaths or weddings did not send flowers. A cinema hired a sound-truck to hawk its shows. Radio stations expanded their newscasts, but it was slim fare. Springfield still had not learned, by paper or radio, that one of the last links with journalistic greatness was gone. Famed Republican Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook, who supported many a cause that the boss did not like, had quit...
...rows of press tables as at a heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...