Word: balaban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last fortnight, an even dozen of the cinema industry's top line executives, representing all of Hollywood's eight major producing companies, gathered in the office of Tsar Will Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
Divorced. Sari Maritza (real name: Patricia Detering-Nathan), 28, China-born, Europe-bred cinemactress (Monte Carlo Madness, The Right to Romance); from Sam Katz, 46. co-founder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain, vice president of Loew's Inc. Grounds: extreme cruelty (he called her "crazy." "stupid...
...Charles Balaban is an amiable fellow whose drug store in Camden, N. J. is a hangout for moppets of the nearby Yorkship Elementary School. Month ago he had an idea for currying the favor and patronage of their parents. To Yorkship School's 250 pupils he announced that each youngster who received an A in deportment on his monthly report card would get one 15-cent ice cream soda on the house. Last week Yorkship's teachers passed out the fateful report cards. Presently, in breathless twos and threes, the first arrivals raced up to Charles Balaban...
According to Leo Smugai, St. Louis chief of the Secret Service, in 1936 Father Balaban fell in with two Croats from his native Yugoslavia, Michael Markalj, who later began turning out spurious money in Pittsburgh, and Pete Klickovich, who supervised passing it. Other Croats bought printing supplies and shipped them to Pittsburgh, where last week Secret Service men seized 1,500 "queer" $20 bills. According to Secret Service men, who said they had taken motion pictures of some of the Croat conferences, the ring planned to pass 5,000 notes in the U. S., then move with 5,000 more...
After eight days of close questioning, Father Balaban made a partial confession, said he had hoped to raise money to return to Yugoslavia...