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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Announcer Edwin C. Hill's contract expired last month, he was replaced by Announcer Jean Paul King of Columbia...
Your use of the word "replaced" without qualification, is far from accurate. When my contract with the former Hearst Metrotone News expired, I was invited to renew it by Vice President Edgar B. Hatrick of the news reel. For reasons entirely personal, I was unwilling to sign a contract of renewal and so notified Mr. Hatrick...
...must have beautiful legs, and a minor reservation: he preferred that she be unknown. Marlene fitted the first condition so perfectly that von Sternberg dropped his reservation. He cast her in the lead of The Blue Angel. When he returned to the U. S. he got her a contract with Paramount...
...make a star. Publicity plus personality-and the star is half made. Add to these assets one real hit and the trick is done. Morocco-succinctly described by Variety as a "boxoffice socko"-was the hit. Von Sternberg directed it. He followed with Dishonored and Shanghai Express. The new contract which he negotiated for himself and Dietrich specified that she was to be paid $125,000 per picture-a record at that time. Von Sternberg got a percentage of the gross. The contract was extraordinary for provisions giving von Sternberg and Dietrich complete choice of writers, cutters, story material, technicians...
...Schumann-Heink, 75, famed Austrian-born contralto; of hemorrhage of the throat and lungs, after leukemia; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Major in the Imperial Army, she sang in her first public concert at Graz at 15, earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy. She had signed...