Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submitted a painting for a show of the Springfield Art League, resigned when it was accepted, giving as his reason that he had deliberately painted the worst picture he could...
...aggressive Hollywood had knocked the cinema industry of the United Kingdom flatter than any British heavyweight. From Lands End to the Shetlands, British cinemas were showing 16 Hollywood films to England's one. To get the slumped industry back on its feet. Parliament enacted a ten-year plan that involved 1) making Hollywood invest in a number of British-made pictures according to quotas (determined by the number of Hollywood pictures distributed in the British Isles); and 2) making British cinema theatres show a similarly determined quota of British-made pictures. To effect this, Parliament set up a sliding...
...have predicted. British producers had made an increasing number of sleazy, two-bit pictures-known as "quota quickies"-had pandered them at bargain prices ($10,000 to $25,000) to Hollywood, to be used as quota films. British audiences hissed and jeered them, and exhibitors, forced by law to show them, tried to palm them off at hours when their theatres were practically empty. Crawling with quota quickies, the British industry got a bad name at home and abroad. The mushroom growth of British films which had followed the promising early years of the ten-year plan began to wither...
...Tendre Ennemie (Eden Productions), like The Ghost Goes West and Topper, makes spooks into amiable comedians. Without the sparkle and ingenuity of its predecessors, it is nevertheless a great show of trick photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other...
Written in vigorous journalese, with a great show of impartiality, Children of the Rising Sun deals with the challenging first half of this prophecy. Author Price gathered his statistics, anecdotes, reflections during four years' travel over the Japanese Empire, including the 2,550 islands of the Japanese mandates which he described in Pacific Adventure...