Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millions of fellahin knew her by her cinema name, Ismahan. They preferred her passionate acting and singing to Hollywood's best, Westerns included...
...remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
Another aspect of the new Communism, long evident, is the worship of old national heroes. From the Soviet film capital at Alma Ata, beyond the Urals, came word that Hollywood-wise, English-speaking Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein has shot two-thirds of a new picture about Tsar Ivan (1530-1584). In Tsarist days, Russian school children learned that Ivan was called the Terrible because as a boy he enjoyed squashing little kittens to death, as a ruler he delighted in hacking off the heads of subjects...
Pennsylvania-born Jimmy Stewart had a conservative education, blossomed after college into unconservative fame as a nice-looking, homey cinema hero. His longtime hobby was aviation. When he entered the Army in March 1941 (one of the first screenmen to do so), he was already a licensed commercial pilot...
Protected by the Army from publicity, serious-minded Colonel Stewart has also protected himself, staying at his base, avoiding interferences, parties, newspaper men. Cinema fans would have to wait until war's end to hear anything but military comment on the swiftly rising career of James Stewart...