Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be big and difficult. To fill it Churchill named popular Lord Woolton, Minister of Food since April 1940. Woolton had proved himself an adroit administrator, a skillful user of press, radio, cinema to keep the public informed. Born Frederick James Marquis in Manchester 60 years ago, Lord Woolton is a onetime Liverpool settlement worker who turned to merchandising, became chairman of Lewis's Ltd. (department stores). As a Minister he had achieved the seemingly impossible, made people like him while he tampered with their eating habits...
Adolphe Menjou, for nearly two decades one of the cinema's slickest dressers, got back from a four-and-a-half-month USO tour of England, North Africa and Sicily - where he reported there were mosquitoes as big as pigeons. Tanned and thinner, he wore a threadbare royal blue outfit, white shirt, red tie with speckled stripes, khaki sweater, green socks, an exhausted artificial carnation...
Sued for Divorce. By Constance Keane Detlie, 23, wheat-headed cinemactress "Veronica Lake"; Army Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime cinema art director; three years after their marriage (for each the first), three months after the death of their premature second child; in Hollywood. She charged that his treatment of her had "produced a condition detrimental to her health and welfare...
...M.G.M.'s fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 1941, Mayer raked in $704,426 for running the world's biggest cinema company. In the comparable Swebilius fiscal year, ending Nov. 30, 1941, Gus Swebilius paid himself $631,809. In the next twelvemonth Mayer increased his lead with a gross take of $949,765, but Swebilius was still second, with $499,148. (After taxes, minor tycoon Swebilius will have not more than $85,000 of his 1942 take...
...mere syllables, heroic or humble, in the terrific vocabulary of war which motion-picture cameras are now recording. They turn up in any war film, any good newsreel. What is done with them is what counts. Leonid Varlamov, who edited Stalingrad, is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Cinema Art, and works in the great tradition of Eisenstein. He has produced a literal, well-organized film, which lacks the heroic imagination that might have made Stalingrad a memorial adequate to the subject. More damaging to Stalingrad is John Wexler's commentary whereby the splendid screen images are undermined...