Word: cinemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed out, royalties from the sale of copies and records would go not only to Fischer and Feist but also to Radio Corp.'s NBC (actually Radio Corp. owns...
...earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music in the chapter house. Newsreeling cinemen jostled through the crowds. Every event went out to all Britain by radio...
...Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James and Oris Paxton). railroaders; the seven Brothers Fisher (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P., Edward P., William A., Albert J., Howard), whose bodies are famous; the three Brothers Warner (Harry, Albert, Jack?the fourth. Sam, died in 1927), cinemen...
William Fox, cineman, was hurrying out Long Island to keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...
Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length...