Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIBERAL guerrillas were in the neighborhood, and the 600 stoutly Conservative residents of San Pedro de Jagua knew well that their homes might be struck next. Children chattered fearfully about Tulio Bautista and other leaders of la chuzma (or "bandits," as the Liberal raiders are known). Early this year San Pedro's citizens organized a raid-warning system among the outlying plantations and ranches. Any farmer who spotted bandits coming was to sound the alarm by setting off a dynamite bomb...
...gift from God came into the world Jan. 31, 1921. Mario (real name: Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) was born and grew up in South Philadelphia. As part of the self-made Lanza legend, he sometimes likes to shock friends or interviewers by painting a lurid picture of his old neighborhood as a hotbed of crime, where stray gangster bullets might have nipped his career at any moment. Outraged by some of the tall tales, South Philadelphians once hurled stones and tomatoes at Lanza's grandfather's home, and made a public ceremony of smashing all the Lanza records they...
...shooting for more solid entertainment in his second production, plans a $2,000,000 dramatic spectacle with music or a Cineramadaptation of a surefire Broadway musical. Cinerama's projection equipment (estimated cost: $40,000-$70,000) can be installed almost anywhere from Radio City Music Hall to the neighborhood movie houses, as long as the theater is not too narrow. Todd plans to install it first only in a single Manhattan theater, then in one house in each of the 16 largest U.S. cities...
...International has climbed out of the red largely on the strength of its Ma and Pa Kettle series designed for "what is insultingly known as the family trade." Each picture in the series costs about $500,000 to make, grosses some $2,500,000 mainly in small towns and neighborhood theaters...
This week Latuko is being held over for its fourth week in two St. Louis neighborhood theaters, where it has been outdrawing movies from Hollywood. Eager film distributors are negotiating with Queeny for the rights to show the picture on a nationwide schedule. If he closes such a deal, the profits, like those of the St. Louis test run, will go to the Museum of Natural History...