Word: cinemas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Paulette Goddard, well-gammed gamin of the cinema, was back in Manhattan from an eleven-week, 38,000-mile U.S.O. Camp Show tour. In the CBI (China-Burma-India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut...
...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...
...worldly dalliance, Hollywood has once more hit the sawdust trail. Between The Sign of the Cross (1932) and The Song of Bernadette (TIME, Feb. 7), only One Foot in Heaven (1941) and a handful of politely portrayed priests and parsons so much as nodded at God in the passing cinema. But with the story of the little visionary of Lourdes, something started. It gathers momentum, this week, with Going My Way, a warm, gentle comedy-drama about life in a Roman Catholic rectory. And it is likely to get bigger and bigger as long, at least, as the war lasts...
...What the cinema does give is the story of a simple man who wavered and whirled like a weather vane in the crossed winds of his time. He liked the Indians but killed scads of them, loved the plains but did more than any one man to turn them into a bone yard. As the picture also shows, he deeply suspected the East, as represented by his wife and by railroad capitalists, and made difficulties for himself by telling off the latter in favor of the Indians. And at length he recouped his fortunes by diluting into showmanship the curious...
George Szell is a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe and a fervent Hitler-hater. But his outward manner suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...