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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only major effort of the cinema industry's craftsmen to grab the profits of their own pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system...
Should they discover that Mr. Spencer got nothing for his share-which he claims to be the case-the liquidators indicated they might oppose its transfer. Meanwhile, Father Divine found his town house problems settled when some of his followers bought him (for $24,000) a brace of connecting houses on Harlem's outskirts. Thrown into one, they contain 50 rooms, a private telephone system, rubber-tiled flooring, modernistic plumbing. A neighbor: "It will be nice to be so near heaven...
When German-born Professor Franz Weidenreich, famed digger for the Peking Man, told an anthropological conference at Copenhagen that all Europeans originally came from Palestine, the only other German present got up and left...
...first it was planned to give this vital job to some high-powered bigwig. But as the new management completed the reorganization, it became apparent that no better symbol of the new day in Wall Street could be found than 31-year-old Bill Martin. Six weeks ago he got the job at $48,000 a year. As if in benediction of the choice, the market simultaneously vaulted from its rut, has since soared steadily...
...builders. In monotonous procession the great figures of the post-Civil War period follow each other-all up to their ears in political intrigues, angling for Federal land grants, corrupting legislatures, double-crossing the public, their stockholders and each other so consistently that it seems remarkable the railroads ever got built...