Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their brother is Hanns Eisler, left-wing Hollywood cinema composer. No stranger to Moscow he wrote a battle song, Komintern, many others hailed by the Daily Worker as Marxist music...
Despite their docility when it came to voting, in speeches the delegates distributed "Soviet selfcriticism" with a generous hand. Even Finance Minister A. G. Zverev, who presented the budget, was accused of "laxity" and told to "give more attention to finances." Cinema Minister I. G. Bolshakov was blamed for a 23-million-ruble loss in the first eight months of 1946 and for making "unsuccessful pictures which cannot be shown." Fisheries Minister A. A. Ishkov and his assistants were told to "put their business in order." The Ministry of Light Industry was attacked for producing only 37.9% of the stockings...
...primrose paths "where interests of the party were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope his way through international problems without guidance...
Jack Doyle, lady-killing Irish ex-heavyweight whose U.S. career included few ring victories but two marriages to cinema starlets, one engagement to Auto Heiress Delphine Dodge, was arrested for trying his left hook on a lady in Dublin. She went down for a short count, whereupon Jack helped her up, then let her have another one. Next day in court he agreed to a ten-bob fine, but announced with injured dignity: "There is no law in the world to prevent me getting drunk every night if I behave myself...
Died. Raimu (real name: Jules Auguste Muraire), 63, great French stage and cinema comedian (The Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter); of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France...