Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Issue. By age-old tradition the Bembas had been required to offer their chiefs small amounts of grain to be made into a kind of beer for use in tribal ceremonies honoring the spirits of the chief's ancestors. This custom was an essential part of the tribe's pagan religion, and when the two Catholic Bembas urged defiance of it-following their consciences and the guidance of their white priests-their purpose was to combat paganism...
...judging from audience response, Gloria Film Co.'s Menschen in Hotel was a Kassenschlager (boxoffice hit). And to Gloria's greying, violet-eyed boss, Use ("Kuba") Kubaschewski, the payoff is all that matters. Hardly had the house lights gone down for the start of the show when the boss sneaked off to her theater-top penthouse to read more scripts, study attendance records, sign checks. At 49, canny Kuba is head of the hottest movie-production outfit in Germany. She has fought her way higher than any other woman in the movie industry-Hollywood included-has ever reached...
Basement Beginning. Her story of her career reads like the schmalz she sells. A Berlin postman's daughter. Use was 17 when she went to work as a secretary for UFA, prewar Germany's movie giant. A few years later, when she switched to the Monopol studios, she was already an unbeatable combination of the seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only...
With an offer of a job as a movie projectionist, provided she could find some films to project, handsome Use hurried to Munich, batted her eyes at the first U.S. Army film officer she found, soon had her hands on a steady supply of prewar German productions. Two years later, Use borrowed 50,000 marks from a bank, bought 30 installments of Zorro serials from the U.S.'s Republic Pictures, and pieced together two full-length features. She made a million marks from her investment and used her profits to start Gloria Films in a Munich basement...
...would Oscar think of using bait ("Them's use bait, they're stink fishermen...