Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of, so that even after a century its congregation will still be able to call the Mellon church "modern." But Brother Richard had no such advanced ideas about the architecture. He selected famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, inveterate, pious, scholarly Gothicist, whose very name on a contract insures his clients of meticulous, medieval craftsmanship (Princeton University Chapel, Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
Mischa Elman, violinist, sued Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, for release of the rights to publish Soldiers of Fortune, an operetta written by Elman in 1920 under a $100,000 contract with Mr. Ziegfeld...
...someone get me a sandwich?" She got bigger jobs quickly, went on the road for a while. After rehearsing for an hour, she stepped into the leading part in High Stakes (1925). As Lou in The Barker, she won fame, a cinema contract and a husband (Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what...
Canadian Cinema. Similar names, Adolph Zukor serving as president of both, a distribution contract until 1939, would indicate that the bonds of interest between Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and Famous Players Canadian Corp., Ltd., are close indeed. But last year F. P. C. established its independence when a group of Canadians acquired control by purchasing a block of stock from Paramount and setting up a voting trusteeship. Soon afterward control was almost resold to Gaumont British Pictures Corp., Ltd., Fox controlled. Perhaps to avert some such catastrophe in the future, Paramount last week offered to exchange its shares for those...
Died. Charles Scribner, 75, board chairman of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan, publishers and booksellers, founder ot Scribner's Magazine; of heart disease; in Manhattan. His most famed publishing contract: $1 per word to Theodore Roosevelt for serial rights to African Game Trails...