Word: korda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two years, he sold out for $300, moved to Budapest. There, in 1910, he launched a bigtime weekly, Szinhazi Elet (Theatre Life), His assistant was Alexander Korda, now of Hollywood. Theatre Life lasted 28 years, folded in 1938 when Hungary's Government, under Nazi pressure, cracked down on the press of Budapest...
This conglomeration of fable, fantasy and monstrosity is British Producer Alexander Korda's biggest bid for the spectacle trade long ago relinquished by D. W. Griffith. Two million dollars and two years' tribulations were spent in his transposition of the Arabian Nights tales to the screen, during which the outbreak of war forced him to move production from his Denham studios near London to the United Artists lot in Hollywood at an added expense...
...recent years-the heir apparency to Mysore having been passed on to his soberer 21-year-old son-Prince Wadiyar's greatest enthusiasm has been the cinema industry. While in England he would hang around Denham (the Korda Studios) all day, and return in the middle of the night to shout out of their beds watchmen, actors, directors. Prince Wadiyar's contribution to civilization: he discovered Sabu, the Elephant...
...Royal Air Force has collaborated with Mr. Korda in making his Winged Lion look both authentic and terrifying. Thus we are initiated into all the "secrets" of air defense which the Government deems wise to publicize, and we are even allowed to share the crammed quarters of a bomber with the handsome young fellows who fight for "liberty, truth, and beauty." Doubtless, even the most die-hard pacifist will get a vicarious thrill out of dog-fights in the air and a spectacular bombardment of German battleships at Kiel. "The Lion Has Wings" interests only insofar...