Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Export federations" - nonprofit trade cooperatives in the U.S. newspaper, magazine, radio, book, and cinema industries - to watch over the quality of exported information. Purpose: to correct the "prewar ratio of 200 True Confessions to every Harper's available abroad...
...Boston, the Massachusetts state board of censors met Will Shakespeare at the pier. They hacked such words as b-wdyh~s-and wh-r-from the cinema version of his Henry V, missed some saltier though subtler sallies. But the cuts were only for Sundays and children's matinees. Week nights, Bostonians could hear the worst...
George M. Cohan, who loved Broadway and despised Hollywood, turned out to have left his heirs more Hollywooden nickels than stage money. Largest single asset of his $827,384 net estate proved to be his interest in the Yankee Doodle Dandy cinema version of his life: $421,766. "Mr. Broadway's" interest in songs: $65,000; in plays...
Married. Boris Karloff (real name: William Henry Pratt), 58, gaunt cinema bogeyman; and Evelyn Helmore, 42; both for the second time; in Boulder City, Nev., the day after Karloff was granted a divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Stine Pratt, who he said was cruel...
...Messrs. Cronyn and Coburn. There are some pleasant appearances: bashful Tom Drake and Beverly Tyler, a good-looking newcomer with a sweet soprano, and eyes a trifle too tricky for her role. The Solemn High Mass and First Communion will move many-and suggest to others that if cinema carries this sort of thing much farther, theaters will have to be consecrated...