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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corp. is showing in Manhattan & elsewhere a "talkie" adaptation of Paul Armstrong's Alias Jimmy Valentine.* It is a "sellout." But "sellout" or no, company directors last week felt that to attract more discriminating, intelligent patrons a certain silent scene would be improved by inserting the spoken words "Is that so?" The actor to speak, William Haines, was in Hollywood; the film to be improved, in Manhattan. Actor Haines spoke at a sound box; his three words were transmuted to a jiggly streak of light on a photograph film; the film sent...
Smart Richard Montague last week discovered that the famed Keith-Albee Corp. considers Lindbergh, Mussolini and the Prince of Wales to be the most valuable box-office attractions now extant. To each they would pay $10,000 a week. President Coolidge or President-Elect Hoover could get $3,000. Al Smith could get $7,000. Queen Mary is worth $5,000. Queen Marie is worth...
Last week, it became apparent that such an executive had both asked and answered such a question. The executive was Col. Sosthenes Behn. His company was the 8-year-old International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which last week announced plans to pay $60,000,000 for the British-owned United River Plate Telephone Co., serving 185,000 subscribers in Buenos Aires and four Argentine provinces...
...Biscuit products was added Shredded Wheat. Holders of Shredded Wheat stock will be offered one share of National Biscuit for two shares of Shredded Wheat. Shredded Wheat had been for some time a rumor centre, one story being that the breakfast food company would be acquired by Gold Dust Corp...
...patrons differentially but earnestly. There were two reasons why they did so: Headwaiters yield only to speakeasy owners as shrewd investors; many a headwaiter was acquainted with the young and impressive Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. who was named to head the board of directors of the Jenkins Television Corp...