Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the original play opens in the Caribbean monarch's castle, the cinema version goes back to fill in what O'Neill left to the imagination. Covering his days as a pullman porter, his murder of a vindictive rival, his escape from a chain gang, and usurping of power on a tropical isle. "Emperor Jones" is almost over before O'Neill's story begins...
...evening I dropped into the cinema theater. In a dark hall filled with sailors, office workers and the simple man in the street, I saw on the screen the beloved face of Comrade Stalin and my heart beat gladly when handclapping resounded in the hall. I then thought that the average American has all the basis for scorning the dirty reactionary brew of Hearst, McCormick & Co. . . . For this average American is the great American people which . . . wishes to live in peace and friendship with the great people of my country...
...walrus-moustached, bloated Colonel Blimp of the David Low cartoon is associated with the Cliveden set of umbrella-toting appeasers, with the narrow selfishness that, along with other attributes, is labeled fascist. Cinema's Colonel Blimp is less bitterly presented, and while he is frequently laughed at he's not a bad sort...
Married. Humphrey Bogart, 45, cinema's surly, frog-voiced bad man; and Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Mansfield, Ohio...
...Southerner (United Artists] is cinema's first wholehearted attempt since The Grapes of Wrath to portray in stirring fiction the lives of real people, in a real world, using their courage against real difficulties. In what it tries to do and in much that it achieves, it is worth any dozen run-of-the-studio Academy Award Winners...