Word: gianninis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda's delegate, Murray Silverstone-sat down in Hollywood to pick a boss. Favored candidates were Pickford and Silverstone. Instead the owners elected Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini...
Overshadowed by his older brother, Amadeo Peter Giannini, head of Transamerica Corp., Attilio Giannini had quietly grown into a unique relationship with the cinema industry. Cut out to be a doctor, he took his M.D. at the University of California, doctored 6,000 Negro troops stationed at San Francisco's Presidio during the Spanish-American War, worked day & night through the terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager...
...director and executive committee chairman and moved into the position of financial godfather to the cinema industry. Cinemagnates went to him first for loans and advice, called him "Doc," credited him with having settled more cinema wrangles than all the law courts of California. Last week Dr. Giannini declared: "I've just started getting paid for what I've been doing for years...
...first fruits of his new labor: the directors of the Good Neighbor League, newly organized to promote the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy. Among the directors were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Methodist Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach. Object of the League was to unite the forces of Feminism, Piety and Pacifism behind Franklin Roosevelt for reelection...
Germany and Austria have pronounced Giannini a great dramatic artist. Toscanini chose her to sing in Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival last summer (TIME, Sept. 2), chose her again for his General Motors broadcast and for his forthcoming performance of the Verdi Requiem. But Father Giannini waited until last week to form his own opinion, then said: "I always think my Dusolina, she has a very nice voice. Now I believe she acts very good...