Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Against the World-a re-make of the Warner smash Five Star Final (1931)-does not offer its famed prototype the courtesy of alteration, but simply stuffs it into a radio-station and mans it with stock company people. Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogartj is the manager of a radio-chain who, in obedience to his hypocritical boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter...
Unlike William Randolph Hearst who never sells a paper, Scripps-Howard has jettisoned dailies in Baltimore, Sacramento, Terre Haute, Des Moines and Dallas. Last week new Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins lopped the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram off the Scripps-Howard chain. Founded in 1851, bought by Scripps-Howard in 1922, ailing since 1929, the Telegram was devoured by its local opposition, the stout old Youngstown Vindicator, left the city with one fat newspaper called The Youngstown Vindicator and The Youngstown Telegram...
...directors of Paramount Pictures last week decided on a successor to President John Otterson, who got his walking papers at the last stockholders meeting (TIME, June 29). Their choice was Barney Bala ban, one of the new directors elected last month and co-founder of Chicago's chain of Balaban & Katz theatres...
...cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain in the Midwest with more than 100 units and an annual box-office take of some...
...chain was sold to Paramount for about $10,000,000 in stock, Barney Balaban becoming the biggest Paramount stockholder except old Adolph Zukor. Sam Katz went into Paramount and out again while Barney Balaban stayed on to run his chain as a Paramount subsidiary. Now 48, reserved, deliberate, hardworking, he lives on Chicago's North Shore, is active in Jewish affairs, takes a great interest in the Chicago Riding Club and the Arlington (Ill.) race track, both of which he helped found. Taking a sly poke at Wall Street's various unsuccessful attempts to run a Hollywood enterprise...