Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technical Sergeant Lew Ayres, serving on Leyte as a chaplain's assistant with U.S. liberation forces, helped give medical treatment to Filipino victims of Jap bombings. Recognized by natives from his cinema role as Dr. Kildare, he said: "It gave me more of a thrill to be recognized by these people than by movie fans...
...sense that the cast-iron predicaments, incisive fights, violent equitations, munificent landscapes and hay-stuffed creatures of such operas can be invested with some feeling both for humor and for authenticity. In advancing this idea, casually argued at best, the most efficient debaters are: 1) John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars; 3) whiskey-whiskered, exuberant "Gabby" Hayes, the most expert old-timer in westerns, who looks rather like Walt Whitman endorsing picnic twist...
...devotion of Nelson Eddy's millions of fans is so fanatical that his fan mail (85% from girls and women) is extraordinary even by radio-cinema standards. Eddy's concert tours sell out way in advance, and he averages $15,000 a week from them. His radio salary is $5,000 a week, not including guest appearances. Another $60,000 to $80,000 a year accrues from his phonograph recordings, at least four of which have sold over a million discs apiece. With his movie income, his total earnings to date are about...
...Yorker last week appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...
David was the youngest of the four sons of the late great Ringgold Wilmer (Ring) Lardner. Each had carried on in his father's field. John, the eldest, Newsweek's able war correspondent in Africa and Europe, is temporarily writing the New Yorker's cinema reviews. Ringgold Jr. is a Hollywood scenarist (Woman of the Year). James, the third son, went to Spain during the civil war as a New York Herald Tribune reporter, joined the Loyalists' International Brigade, was killed in battle...