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...film world has changed vastly since 1914 when Jesse Lasky with Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil Blount DeMille produced The Girl of the Golden West and The Warrens of Virginia. In 1916 the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. joined Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Co. and Paramount Pictures Corp. (distributing agency) to become Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Hollywood thought that the shy, egg-headed Lasky and Adolph Zukor concealed a griping rivalry behind their affability. Presently Benjamin Percival Schulberg became Lasky's man: managing director of production. Sidney Kent was Zukor's man: general manager...
...Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, in Los Angeles whither he had been taken from a New Mexico sanatorium with pleurisy of both lungs; Adolph S. Ochs, 74, publisher of the New York Times, in Manhattan, following removal of a kidney; Dr. Johann Schober, 57, onetime chancellor of Austria, in Vienna, of a critical heart attack; Mayor Anton J. Cermak, 59, of Chicago, reputedly from convention fatigue and overeating (pickled pigs' feet...
Lizard-Eaters- Two months ago Capt. Hans Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously...
...utilities tycoon. Six months later Mr. Tinker became board chairman, was succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers...
...Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times LL.D...