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Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor...
...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...
After eight days of close questioning, Father Balaban made a partial confession, said he had hoped to raise money to return to Yugoslavia...