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United Artists was formed in 1919 by David Wark Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford because they were tired of making money for other producers. One by one, United Artists' founders grew tired of making money for themselves. Director Griffith retired from the company in 1933. U. A.'s other original producers have almost ceased producing pictures in the last five years. Since United Artists stopped making their own pictures, other producers have made pictures for the company to release to exhibitors. Of the producers who release through United Artists, two have bought partnerships...
...would welcome, something more than tradepapers, highbrow snippets and vulgar fan magazines, has long seemed obvious. This week on U. S. newsstands appeared 52,000 copies of the first substantial effort to supply this demand. It was Cinema Arts, a FORTUNE-sized, 50?, slick-paper magazine, published by Albert Griffith-Grey, younger brother of the oldtime cinema director, David Wark Griffith...
Produced by onetime Comedian Raymond Griffith, directed by Norman Taurog. Fifty Roads to Town's principal claim to a permanent niche in cinema history is that it includes Hollywood's first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession...
...have fought for 30 years." An anti-Volivan named Rev. Theodore Pfeiffer denied that the fire was set but admitted there had been opposition. "The fire," he said, "was a judgment of God against the turning of the Tabernacle into a theatre." This week a Zionite named Thomas Griffith, 19, confessed to setting the fire, with kerosene, "to get even with Overseer Voliva for failing to provide funds last summer to bury Griffith's foster-mother...
...Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated tribute for outstanding contributions "to the advancement of the motion picture." Last week the Committee decided that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry- Newsreel. Its creativeness is looked upon...