Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank had stood his ground against his critics with all the solemn dignity of an elephant harried by terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces Rank's pictures, was short of cash. Reluctantly Rank opened the books of G.C.F. and gave outsiders their first peek into his movie finances...
Ushered by Social Service Committee members from Phillips Brooks House, the fledgling cinema fans will gaze at such timeless epics as "The Immigrant" and "Burlesque on Carmen...
...stage by announcing a proposed merger which, in effect, will give theater managers control over film production. Odeon Theaters, Lt., Britain's third largest theater chain (350 houses), has offered to pay ?1,225,000 for control of Rank's privately owned producing and distributing company, General Cinema Finance Corp...
Bracken and the Beaver demanded to see General Cinema Finance's balance sheet. The Beaver's Daily Express hinted that the Stock Exchange might suspend dealings in Odeon stock "until full accounts of the General Cinema Finance Corp. . . . have been published." The Tribune, a Socialist weekly, thought that Rank might have lost so much money on his prestige films for the U.S. market that G.C.F. needed a financial transfusion from Odeon...
...from the late wunderbare Producer-Director Max Reinhardt and left it on a score of sophisticated implausibilities (Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...