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...Hollywood offices of the Hays organization last week, six of Hollywood's major producers-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis B. Mayer, Fox Production Chief Winfield Sheehan, Warner Brothers' Jack Warner, Columbia's Harris Cohn, President Benjamin B. Kahane of RKO, Comedy-Producer Hal Roach-met to decide what to do. Their 10,000 underlings, whose total weekly pay amounts to $1,500,000, blenched at the rumor that all studios would close for at least four weeks. Next day the producers met again. They decided they could keep studios open temporarily at least...
...tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became president of Columbia in place of Joseph Brandt, planned to pay some of his scenarists and actors picture royalties. A new cooperative producing organization, the Screen Guild, headed by President Michael Charles Levee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, last week prepared to start its first production...
Girl Crazy (RKO) is a vehicle fit for the comic talents of Robert Woolsey and Ben Wheeler, two funnymen from vaudeville who have lately aroused so much enthusiasm among cinemaddicts that they were last week the principals in an experiment to find a new way of paying actors. Harry Cohn, new president of Columbia Pictures Corp., announced that he had hired Wheeler & Woolsey to make a picture for a royalty on its profits, an arrangement never before tried by a major producing company. If it works. Columbia will try it on other employes...
Unless Columbia's Cohn is able to think up a better picture than Girl Crazy, his experiment is unlikely to prove anything. The picture is an adaptation of a Manhattan musicomedy delineating happenings at a dude ranch started by a young Easterner who has been sent west to lead a quiet life. Wheeler & Woolsey arrive at the dude ranch in a taxi. Wheeler i? induced to run for sheriff, an office as dangerous to its incumbent as the presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby...
...Columbia Pictures line-up last week was Walter Wanger who resigned as general production manager of Paramount last June. It was his third resignation. This time the resignation stuck and he became vice president of Columbia (Mickey Mouse distributors). Harry Cohn assumed the presidency after buying the stock interest of Joseph Brandt, former president and his associate for 15 years...