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...friends Jacob Loeb and Nathaniel King. New directors included: Harley Clarke (new Fox chief), Matthew C. Brush of American International; Charles B. Stuart, brother of Harry Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co.). John Edward Otterson (for American Telephone & Telegraph) was not included...
With a new plan and a new management, it remained only for Mr. Harley Clarke to make another of the familiar announcements about the Fox companies getting down to business again, for Mr. Sheehan to see that they...
Harold Leonard Stuart and John Edward Otterson. were satisfactorily victorious. Their position as friends of Harley Clarke, new Fox head, was obvious through the fact that the Stuart-Otterson plan of Fox financing had provided for Mr. Clarke's company as underwriters of new Fox stock. Mr. Stuart and Mr. Otterson were sure to get back their $27,000,000; to continue as Fox bankers and suppliers; and were probably to become new Fox directors...
...Harley L.Clarke emerged with big Fox Film and Fox Theatres technically subsidiaries of his comparatively small General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which held the majority of Fox voting stock. Nothing developed to indicate a connection between Mr. Clarke's utility interests (Utilities Power & Light) and the Fox purchase. It was said that Mr. Courtland Smith, a pro-Sheehan Fox executive (Movietone newsreel) was first to interest Mr. Clarke in the deal...
General Theatres Equipment, Inc. organized last July in a merger of several theatre equipment companies, is headed by Harley L. Clarke, also president of Utilities Power & Light Corp., potent Midwest utility holding company. It was Utilities Power & Light which two years ago invaded the British Utility field by securing control of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., which supplies power to London, Birmingham and many another English city and of which the Earl of Birkenhead is chairman. In addition to his duties as utility organizer and promoter, Mr. Clarke has cultivated an interest in Shakespeare to the extent of financing...