Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chicken so successfully that the famed piece of unborn chicken's heart began to grow & grow. If in the 23 years since that experiment started his assistants had not periodically pared the embryonic tissue and destroyed the parings, the whole earth might now (theoretically) be covered with a film of soft flesh...
Columbia. Columbia was the only major film company to show steady Depression profits. Last fiscal year it earned a whopping $9.91 per share on its common stock. Having considered these facts, the Brothers Cohn, President Harry and Vice President Jack, last week announced plans to issue 75,000 shares of no-par preferred stock paying $2.75. Part of the three or four million dollars thus raised will be used to retire a small outstanding issue of $3 preferred, the rest added to working capital. Next week, also, the Cohns will ask stockholders to approve a 50% stock dividend...
...money and his wife, who divorced him. Director Korda whisked back to Berlin, then Paris; found a job at Paramount's Joinville studio. Two years later, he summoned his old friend Author Lajos Biro to help him promote a few thousand francs. With a smart young film salesman named Stephen Pallos and Brother Vincent Korda they formed the enterprise that presently developed into London Film Productions...
...London, where the new company set about making pictures for Paramount and Gaumont-British release, Alexander Korda had a hard time until someone sent him a fat, pasty-faced young actor named Charles Laughton. To the derision of the whole British film industry, Producer Korda promptly cast Laughton as Henry VIII. He then persuaded United Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda...
...screen needs more pictures dealing with home life, homespun Producer Carl Laemmle Sr. gave homespun Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest a long-term contract with Universal Pictures Corp. On the basis of a single screen test, "Uncle Carl" bubbled: "I look upon Mr. Guest as one of the great film stars of tomorrow. He is a leader in the field of modern American wit, vision and understanding. He knows American minds, hearts and homes...