Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred thousand moviegoers packed into 20 Moscow theaters in four days to see the new film success, Young Guard, with music by Shostakovich. Seventeen theaters in Leningrad were also jammed with fans, anxious to see the dramatization of Alexander Fadeev's best selling novel about Russian partisan heroes. Though the music wasn't what drew most of the crowds, Shostakovich could read his press notices and see, with a practiced eye, just where he stood...
...Isthmus of Panama to Hudson Bay" (after Jan. 1 Disney's brother, Roy, will handle the rest of the world), considers himself the world's greatest Disney fan. Whenever a new picture is completed, he flies to Hollywood to preview it, begins selling its characters before the film is even released. Last week he had just seen Disney's latest, So Dear to My Heart, was already lining up contracts to reproduce its animal hero Danny, a little black lamb...
...slightly different vein, the Exeter theater has brought back Goodbye Mr. Chips, which has its last showing tonight. Loew's State and Orpheum are showing a documentary of the U. S. Navy's activities in the Antarctic, rendered glamorous by Lieutenants Robert Taylor and Van Heflin. Much of the film, incidentally, was photographed by Hugh Foster '50 while he was on duty with a Navy communications unit...
...must have seen the writing on the subway walls. I am referring specifically to the scribbings on the subway advertisements for Orson Welles' new movie, "Macbeth," on which some subway riders have felt moved to give capsule reviews of the film such as "This stinks." But I am also referring more generally to that great new indoor sport called "Pinning the Tail on Orson," which was conceived by "Life" magazine. Its approach to the film was exceedingy unfair and just another proof that Mr. Luce's big, slobbering monster ought to have its claws trimmed and its pants changed before...
Orson Welles has always annoyed some people because of his ability to keep them awake in the theater. Coming to Hollywood from Mars, Welles' first movie, "Citizen Kane," set the film industry on its ear and sent William Randolph Hearst on Mr. Welles. Recognizing that he was Kane, Hearst has since allowed none of his papers to mention Welles and has forbidden at least one studio to touch his work. In a town that is totally dependent on publicity for its survival, such opposition has made it tough for Welles to make the kind of pictures he wants to make...