Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried on a "telephone terror," threatening bombings (the blasted walls of the King David Hotel were still vivid in everyone's mind). On Zion Circus the marquee of a cinema twinkled: "They Were Expendable...
...since the days of Cecil B. DeMille's glorious extravaganzas have movie audiences been able to sit in rapture of anything as truly Hollywood as "Caesar and Cleopatra." It fits all the adjectives a cinema press-agent can wholesale: colossal, stupendous, terrific. Scenes of giant Egyptian idols against a red, evening sky, the sand-swept Sphinx, the great columns of Cleopatra's palace, are all magnificent, but unhappily they obscure the important element-a scenario by Bernard Shaw...
Died. Léon Gaumont, 82, French cinema pioneer, who synchronized film and sound as early as 1903, experimented with the first color films, showed the way to newsreel making; in Sainte Maxime, France...
...year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
...material. For example, although some 600 new names are added to the biography file every month, an equal number of folders whose subjects are no longer of news interest are weeded out - illustrative, perhaps, of a journalistic axiom that it takes a very staunch, or lucky, citizen (in politics, cinema, or elsewhere) to remain newsworthy for a decade...