Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Did Mrs. Fiske, as well as Mrs. Leslie Carter, appear in The Heart of Maryland which was the play based on the poem referred to? Mrs. Carter acted in that play during the early part of her theatrical career, and I recall seeing her in a film version. It seems extremely unlikely that both ladies should have played the same role...
...important motion pictures in three years will be made in color. . . . Within three years, or perhaps two, the British film industry will be as great in productions and earning power as the American. . . . The British sunlight is just as lovely as the American sunlight. . . . The cinema must forget its eternal preoccupation with love stories...
...cinema industry a serious rival to Hollywood. When he arrived in Manhattan on his way to California to discuss his plans for the coming season, ship news reporters on the lie de France dutifully scribbled every word Alexander Korda said because they knew that, as head of London Film Productions, Ltd. he is today Britain's best in the way of a producer...
...Realmleader was distressed at reports of misconduct by "The Perfect Nazi," Juergen Ohlsen. Two years ago Herr Ohlsen was picked as the perfect German racial type, starred as the hero of a Nazi propaganda film, The Hitler Lad Quex, who was supposed to epitomize all Nazi virtues. Last week Juergen ("Quex") Ohlsen faced prompt expulsion from the Hitler Youth Organization for playing tennis regularly with...
Meanwhile in Manhattan the salaries of three prime cinemagnates were revealed last week when Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. registered two security issues with SEC. Fox stockholders had approved seven-year contracts calling for annual payments of approximately $200,000 to President Sidney R. Kent, $250,000 to Vice President Darryl Zanuck and $125,000 to Chairman Joseph M. Schenck. Total for the three is $575,000 a year, or nearly 50? a share on the common stock of the new company. When a Fox stockholder objected to these payments at a stockholders' meeting last fortnight, President Kent silenced...