Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irma B. Levy of Manhattan. It is the biggest establishment of its kind in the country. Some 3,000 children have already recuperated there, and left their medical records. It was to help raise $75,000 which Mrs. Levy needs to keep Irvington House going full tilt that Dr. Cohn last week made his gloomy statement concerning the inevitable doom of every other child who contracts rheumatic fever. Said Dr. Cohn further, and more hopefully: "If we can . . . have 3,000 more case records in another ten years ... we may find some way of giving these children a normal span...
...Many Paths (by Irving Kaye Davis; Cohn & Scanlon, producers). This year Playwright Davis* has interested himself in the artistic set. Few weeks ago, in a play called All Rights Reserved (TIME, Nov. 19), he pondered the problem of a sober essayist who goes berserk when a book by his wife leads him to believe that she ha's grown promiscuous. So Many Paths concerns an ambitious singer named Clara Kenny (Norma Terns of Mow Boat) An unsuccessful audition drives Clara to such desperation that she flings herself into the arms of a rich protector. He sends her abroad for training...
...Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt her two sisters. Lady Furness and Mrs. Benjamin Thaw. Last to arrive, while Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney was winding up her case for the custody of her niece Gloria and her fortune, was ruddy Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, British sportsman-adventurer. Said Captain Cohn, as he went in to kiss Mrs. Vanderbilt's hand: "It is all so un-English...
Last week major production companies, who still believe that the demand for less sexy pictures comes from a noisy minority, were prepared to accept the fact that cleaner pictures are, at least temporarily, necessary. Columbia's Vice President Jack Cohn voiced the opinion of the industry to his salesmen in Atlantic City: "This violent burst of condemnation is directed against something greater than the motion picture. . . . The motion picture reflects the thing against which the Crusaders inveigh-the tendencies of the times...
Columbia's No. 1 Director Frank Capra last season, produced two pictures, Lady for a Day and It Happened One Night, which provided Harry Cohn, Columbia's Production Chief, with sufficient capital for the most elaborate program in the company's history for next year: 48 pictures, 32 of them ambitious features. Frank Capra will direct Broadway Bill, in which Warner Baxter will appear at twice his usual salary...