Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For most of Hollywood, security is a will-o'-the-wisp, but there are exceptions. Last week 47-year-old Darryl F. Zanuck, starting his 15th year as 2Oth Century-Fox's production boss, signed up for 20 years more. The new contract will keep Zanuck at his...
¶Sureseaters had opened in San Diego and Salt Lake City. Others were planned in Denver, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma. Los Angeles, which had gotten five new sureseaters in twelve months, would soon get one more which has hitherto specialized in westerns.
For producers like Rank (Henry V, Hamlet), the sureseaters have been a bonanza. Eagle Lion, distributor of Rank's The Red Shoes, has grossed more from its 40-week run in Philadelphia's Trans-Lux than from all its other pictures in Philadelphia theaters during the same period...
Will Hollywood moviemakers go after some of this rich gravy by aiming more pictures at adults? Obviously, Hollywood's bosses cannot neglect the mass audience that keeps 19,000 U.S. theaters going. But as the sureseaters keep growing, their operators-and their surefire audiences-are hoping that some producers...
Out of the monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or...