Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eminence, Ky., Theater Owner Arey Miles pushed a campaign to improve the unmarked grave of Cinemaster David W. Griffith, who died last year. Collected so far, from three exhibitors...
University Theater (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Henry Hull...
...were plungers, they were impatient of tradition, and they were fascinated by newness, bigness and the sound of battle. Director D. W. Griffith demonstrated that the jerky, flickering motion picture could be a dramatic form with sweep and magnificence. M.G.M's Louis B. Mayer ran a cheap variety theater in Haverhill, Mass, into a cinema empire. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, a gold prospector from Tombstone, Ariz., found a fortune beneath his feet and exploited the vast oil wealth of Los Angeles. Donald Douglas and "Dutch" Kindel-berger built air armadas, and restless Henry Kaiser, fabricator of dams & ships, gave...
Sharman Douglas, 20, blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, all dressed up to take in a new movie (the world premiere of Christopher Columbus) at London's Odeon theater, stopped for a moment amid popping flashbulbs for a curtsy to Queen Mary, grandmother of her friend Princess Margaret, as Sharman's own mother beamed approval...
Warming himself last week in the glow of his fireworks, Leonidoff was already hatching new spectacles to keep the theater's 6,200 seats filled. One of his pet projects: a cavalcade of the building of the West, opening with a raging forest fire and closing with the San Francisco skyline rising gold-plated out of the horizon...