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...scene wherein the heroine feels called upon to sacrifice her honor to the villain in order to save the man she loves has occurred so frequently in the cinema that it can be regarded as a more rigid pillar of the industry than Mr. Zukor, Mr. Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...
...Francisco needs either one patron like William Andrews Clark Jr. who supports the Los Angeles Philharmonic or the unified backing of all the city's music enthusiasts. For years petty cliques have hindered the development of the San Francisco orchestra. In 1915 when bald, bearded Alfred Hertz went there to conduct, friends of social, correct Henry Hadley, his predecessor, went so far as to accuse him of being pro-German.- Hertz had a good friend in Jacob Bertha Levison, president of the Musical Association which sponsors the orchestra, but there were potential patrons who could not forget that Jews...
...salesman, Manager Kent was an Adolph Zukor protege. His resignation was sudden. Theories heard last week boiled down to two: 1) Mr. Kent resented the increasing power of Sam Katz (cofounder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain) in the company; 2) Mr. Kent had quarreled with Taximan John Daniel Hertz, leader of Paramount's new management. Every producer was said to be angling for Mr. Kent last week, with RKO, now 60%-owned by Radio Corp., thought to be an especially eager dickerer. Meanwhile Hollywood wondered whether Paramount would sell its 50% interest in Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., on which...
...well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix in which he died, was a director of some 40 corporations (although he seldom attended meetings), was associated in many a business with his great & good friends Adman Lasker, Charles Alexander McCulloch, John Daniel Hertz. He believed religiously in all the old maxims, went to bed early, got up early, rode horseback almost to the day of his death, at 70 looked 20 years younger. Red faced, clear eyed, with not a grey hair in his head, recently he remarked that by taking care...
Club, Mr. Widener is head of the Belmont Park Association, strongly interested in racing at Aqueduct and Saratoga, adviser to John D. Hertz and other Chicagoans in the restoration of Illinois racing to an honest plane at Arlington Park. Transforming Hialeah from a rundown track into the liveliest winter racing resort in the U. S., he caused $1,500,000 to be spent on improvements. Last week Mr. Widener was indignant over rivalry which came from a new Miami racetrack called Tropical Park, controlled by two Manhattan sports named Bill Dwyer and Bill Gallagher...