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A recent report by a Government committee put most of the blame for skollieism on U.S. comic strips, gangster cinemas and Our Gang comedies.
The average Englishman only comes into close contact with the Americans in public houses and in cinemas, which are not always the best meeting places.
>Some 600 cinema theaters, worth ?24,000,000. This is less than 15% of the British total, but since they include Gaumont-British's 275, and Odeon's 300 cinemas and supercinemas, they cater to almost one-third of Britain's 23,000,000 weekly cinemaddicts.
By the end of World War I Louie Lurie had settled in San Francisco. As he tells it now, his formula was beautifully simple: "I'd buy lots south of Market Street for $5,000, put up a $10,000 building and sell the deal for $18,000-$20...
British cinemas last week showed Winston Churchill's recent meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. The same newsreel included a brief shot of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arriving in Washington during Churchill's visit. British audiences were attentive to Churchill and Roosevelt, but made no demonstration. When the...