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THIS business is like opium-once it's in your blood, everything else is dull," muses Paramount Pictures Executive George Weltner. The habit has proved profitable for him: last week, at 62, he was promoted from executive v.p. to president. In something of a youth movement, he replaces Barney Balaban, who at 76 becomes chairman; Paramount's founder, Adolph Zukor, 91, was named chairman emeritus. Aging Paramount lost $2,800,000 in 1962 when several films were boxoffice flops. Last year it was back in the black, and first-quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost...
...some real acting in the legitimate theater. And both are always fun to watch and at times as real as one could wish. But because of Costigan's myopia, no clear Mavis or Emil (or Edward for that matter) ever comes through; the only consistent performance is from Barney, the sheep-dog (played, the program reports, by Patrick, the sheep-dog). And he can't save the show. Baby Want A Kiss some how manages to be as inane as its title...
Named in the indictments were: Edward R. Fields, 30, information director and leader of the National States Rights party; Gerald Q. Dutton, 25; Jesse B. Stoner, party attorney; James K. Warner; David A. Stanley; Barney M. Carmack, Jr.; Jack Cash and Ralph Lewandowski...
...over many a more seasoned architect. Entering no fewer than 25 industrial-design competitions at Chicago's 1933 exposition, he won 22. When a Balaban & Katz movie theater offered to spend $5,000 on drapery and upholstery, Pereira remodeled the entire theater for the same price. Later, Barney Balaban gave him $18 million worth of work on the chain's theaters...
...Espionage has no continuing star, just a succession of eager wolves in Bond clothes, and CBS's The Great Adventure will be a series of stories from American history, including Barney Oldfield, Civil War submarines, Sitting Bull, the crash of the dirigible Akron, Boss Tweed...