Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Museum will include a globular film theater, with cinema projectors in the floor. Films will be thrown on the ceiling, viewed by audiences lying in reclining chairs...
John (Major Joppolo) Hodialc, in Manhattan for the cinema premiere of A Bell for Adano, told an interviewer, "I'd like to get married more than anything. I especially believe in being married in Hollywood. It's just no place for a bachelor. There's nothing for a bachelor...
...page report, the commission found that the state of religion in Eng land has fallen so low that bold, modern methods (i.e., extensive use of radio, cinema, stage, television, the press) should be tried to revive it. Of the British people the commission said: "We are called to a far harder task than to evangelize heathen, who do worship (however ignorantly) a power higher than themselves. In England the Church has to present the Christian gospel to multitudes in every section of society who believe in nothing, who have lost . . . the spiritual dimension, and for whom life has no ultimate...
...University of Denver will expand its Department of Government Manage ment into a School of Public Administration. It will also merge and expand other departments into a School of Communication, covering journalism, radio, speech, drama, television, cinema, public-opinion analysis, advertising, public relations...
Such was the jungle of the cinema industry in December, 1921, when these and other pioneer cinemagnates asked Postmaster General William Harrison Hays to become their leader at a salary of $100,000 a year. Since his acceptance a month later, Will Hays has achieved what Raymond Moley considers a marvelous record of industrial statesmanship. In this history, ex-New Dealer Moley mainly confines himself to an objective, minutely detailed recitation of facts and figures, but an introduction clearly states his point: cinema's self-regulation is a splendid example of how business can stay out of the government...