Word: balaban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the following were news: Largest chain of cinemansions in the Midwest is Chicago's Balaban & Katz Corp., first to install theatre refrigeration, first to cut dull shots from newsreels. When Paramount Publix Corp. acquired Balaban & Katz seven years ago B. & K.'s president, Sam Katz, became Paramount Publix's vice president in charge of theatre operations. For the past two years Paramount Publix has not been doing so well (see p. 46), nor has B. & K., which lately passed its $7 preferred stock dividend. Two months ago Sam Katz resigned from Paramount Publix after directors...
...expansions. Then it was revealed that it had agreed to buy its stock back should it drop. The late William Wrigley Jr. (gum), Albert Davis Lasker (advertising) and John Daniel Hertz (taxicabs), all Chicagoans, began buying into Paramount. Their man was Sam Katz, of Chicago's Balaban & Katz chain of cinema theatres. At 13 he had played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with 144 folding chairs; soon he bought 130 more chairs; soon he owned three theatres. Katz went to work...
...Kent resigned from Paramount-Publix Corp. last month, were guessing his plans. Popular, an excellent salesman, Manager Kent was an Adolph Zukor protege. His resignation was sudden. Theories heard last week boiled down to two: 1) Mr. Kent resented the increasing power of Sam Katz (cofounder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain) in the company; 2) Mr. Kent had quarreled with Taximan John Daniel Hertz, leader of Paramount's new management. Every producer was said to be angling for Mr. Kent last week, with RKO, now 60%-owned by Radio Corp., thought to be an especially eager dickerer. Meanwhile Hollywood...
...staff: "She is the Spring Song by Sousa's Band. . . . She is as bouncing, effervescent, indomitable, cyclonic, ululating and incredible as her literary style. . . . There is a high wind about Amy that blows your hat off." Her successor is Lloyd Lewis, author of Myths After Lincoln, publicity director for Balaban & Katz cinemansion chain, co-author?with the Daily New's Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith?of Chicago: The History of Its Reputation...
...Chicago last week, Barney Balaban, Chicago cinemagnate (Balaban & Katz theatres) was enjoined by Knute and Emil Hulquist, operators of the Chicago Theatre (burlesque), from using the title "Chicago Theatre" for his gaudy nine-year-old, $5,000,000 cinemansion. In the course of the proceedings Mr. Balaban referred to the 250-seater burlesque house as a "shooting gallery," where "females of the grosser type prevail." In defense of burlesque, gallantly replied Emil Hulquist: "There is but one difference between the type of musical entertainment known as the 'revue' or 'musical comedy and that type known...