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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the U. S. smart citizens and radio listeners know that Tycoon Young is Chairman of General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
Elusive Young, Silent Gilbert. Officials of General Electric and Radio Corp. of America blandly told newsgatherers, last week...
...C.F.R.F. was organized under the aegis of General James G. Harbord, president of Radio Corp. of America, with Doctor S. Parkes Cadman, so-called and famed "National Radio Pastor," as chairman...
...when American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gave a private showing of sound-pictures of people singing, an orchestra playing, a drummer drumming, officials of the company waited anxiously for the verdict of the man for whom the showing had been arranged?Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount-'amous Players-Lasky Corp.* Mr. Zukor said then: "I think it will be good some day. I'd like to see somebody perfect it. Myself, I can't handle it until it's better." Last week Mr. Zukor said: "From now on at least 50% of our productions will be sound pictures...
...cinema, The Cohens and Kellys, which dealt with the same situation (Irish-Hebrew romance), achieved some box-office attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited...