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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People who like their melodrama raw and in big gulps get their fill. Those who would swap a third-rate Hitchcock any night for a first-rate Laughton get an even break...
Maureen O'Hara is a touchy, spunky, comely 18-year-old, as Irish as a banshee, with a lilting Dublin brogue. Like Mrs. Charles Laughton (Elsa Lanchester) she is a redhead. Before making Jamaica Inn, she studied at the apprentice school of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, did bits on the stage for a short time, bits in pictures. Though she was short on experience, one screen test convinced Actor-Producer Laughton that he should cast Maureen O'Hara in Jamaica Inn. Impressed by her success in that picture, RKO last month signed her to play Esmeralda...
...York City, every week, some 30,000 people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti...
This week Father Coughlin celebrates his 48th birthday, in a new and spectacular way. For him will be held "Birthday Balls," like those for President Roosevelt. In Brooklyn, a Coughlin stronghold, an "American Citizens Committee" will hold a party whose proceeds (tickets 50?, box seats $1) will go to Father Coughlin, who will address the party by wire...
...seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst out on the vaulted "sky," and the whole audience says...