Word: divan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After lunch home and stretch out on the divan but Madame slays me with her heavy weights, which she drops upon me, defenseless, as I lie. So that I find no comfort, and rising, pick up the small brown Mermaid books that stand between my dachshund bookends. The title-page bears the legend, from Beaumont, "I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine". The books are plays of Beaumont and Fletcher...
...future of this oldest and greatest of British cinema companies appeared to have been definitively settled last July, not in London, but in Manhattan. Joseph Michael Schenck, chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., seated appropriately on a hotel divan between his brother, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and the president of Gaumont-British, Isidore Ostrer, announced a three-way Gaumont deal (TIME, Aug. 3). Nick Schenck's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's production subsidiary, was going to buy one-half of Twentieth Century-Fox's minority interest in the Gaumorit-British holding...
...Joseph Michael Schenck, massive, imperturbable board chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. To each newshawk Mr. Schenck handed, not a highball in the Hollywood tradition, but a formal statement confirming the biggest cinema deal of the year. Then Mr. Schenck plunked himself down in the centre of a divan, flanked by the two other principals in the triple play: his younger brother and competitor, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and President Isidore Ostrer of Gaumont-British Pictures Corp...
Joseph Schenck's centre position on the divan was appropriate. When he took his Twentieth Century Pictures and his ace producer, Darryl Zanuck, to Fox Film last year, he found Fox in possession of 49% voting interest in a holding company which controlled Gaumont-British. With 450 theatres and the best production in the Empire, Gaumont is the biggest factor in British cinema. The Fox interest in Gaumont-British was picked up by William Fox in 1929 for about $20,000,000, a purchase which later played a large part in toppling the silvery Fox pyramid about Founder...
...skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist Ganso, but watchful Dealer Weyhe is careful not to overprice his work. Ganso's most seductive nudes sell for $150 to $500 apiece...