Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came tirades against U. S. cinema productions. Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms was propaganda, his papers snarled. U. S. investors in Famous Players-Lasky and in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not like this. Their companies had joined a year ago to lend Ufa, Germany's largest cinema producer and controller of 130 theatres in the Reich, $4,000,000. The money was safe, being protected by a mortgage on the great Ufa theatre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. But such articles were not polite; they were invidious...
Loew's Inc. earned $6,388,200 in the 1926 fiscal year that ended last August. It controls about 150 first class cinema houses; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produces pictures for this company. Nicholas M. Schenck and Louis B. Mayer run the business because Marcus Loew, official head, has not been well...
...Garland, President, Bowery and East River National Bank of New York, will have for his subject, "Finance". The lectures of the last week will be: "Foreign Development", on March 29, by William Fox, President, Fox Film Corporation, "Theatre Management", on March 30, by Marcus Loew, President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; and "New Developments in Motion Pictures", on March 31, by H. M. Warner, President, Warner Brothers Picture Corporation...
...Film Booking Offices of America has arranged for lectures by such prominent figures in the motion picture industry as, Jesse D. Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; Adolph Zukor, President of Famous Players; William Fox, President of the Fox Film Corporation; Marcus Loew, President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation and Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation...
...Film Corporation has seldom ventured into the field so completely usurped by Metro-Goldwyn and Paramount, the field of big moving picture hits. Their attempt to do so here has been successful. The fear that "What Price Glory" would be a repetition of all the war tragedies and comedies was groundless. True, it would be too much to say that the picture was original in all its details, but there was a distinct atmosphere about the film which made one set it apart...