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...general manager of Fox Film Corp., Mr. Sheehan has been the operating genius of the Fox company. Joining the Fox organization in 1914, he organized Fox Foreign Exchanges in Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, on the Continent and in South America and the Far East. He was the first cineman to concentrate on the foreign market, from which today comes 40% of the industry's revenue. He founded Fox News and Fox Educational Department. In 1915 he opened the first Fox studio in Hollywood. _ It was Mr. Sheehan who boomed Fox Films from a production standpoint, his first great...
...202nd regment). His first job was reporting for the Buffalo Courier. Later he went to Manhattan, was police reporter for the New York Evening World. During the administration of Mayor William J. Gaynor he was secretary to the Fire Commissioner and later to the Police Commissioner. He joined Cineman Fox on Jan.1...
...motion picture companies stockmarket breaks do not mean diminished profits, for like tobacco companies they are "depression proof." But at this particular time the stockmarket decline brought severe trouble to Cineman Fox. During the recent period of expansion he had needed great sums of cash. These he had obtained by short-term loans upon the stock of acquired companies. With $91,000,000 of these notes falling due, with his collateral down, with conditions bad for refinancing, Cineman Fox for the first time needed assistance. Last week he summoned aid by appointing a trustee-triumvirate consisting of himself, a banker...
...object of the triumvirate is not to change the policy of the company but to arrange a method for meeting the obligations incurred by Cineman Fox. Assurance that the affairs of the company will remain in such conservative trustees' hands for five years will make lenders more willing...
Aided by 51 newspapers throughout the land, Cineman Carl Laemmle's Universal Newsreel daily flashes current events before the eyes of ten million cinemagoers in 10,000 theatres. Last week Newsreeler Laemmle enlisted more aid. To replace the explanatory captions in his newsreels he contracted to have the explanations spoken by a voice already familiar to his customers, the radio baritone of Graham McNamee, broadcaster extraordinary. A new title was invented for the occasion: Talking Reporter...