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Cried Laborite Jock McGovern, "This Government has been run by Laurel and Hardy! They have changed places and Hardy is now Prime Minister. Then they have brought in a member of the former Prime Minister's family - they have brought in Jackie Coogan as Colonial Secretary...
Gambling on the public's reaction to Becky Sharp at the world premiere of that all-color film at Manhattan's Music Hall last week, hundreds of Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer Pictures, which control 15% of Technicolor, Inc., made an impressive splash with their $1,000,000 production, the black-&-white cinema industry might become as passe as the silent films, and Technicolor would stand as a very profitable colossus at the entrance to a new era in cinema production...
...rented Pathe lot. Director Rouben Mamoulian, hired to replace Sherman, scrapped all the scenes made by his predecessor. A sequence carefully pieced together from 6,000 ft. of negative was burned in a projection machine and had to be recut, which took a week. During these tribulations, Jock Whitney flew to the coast nine times. Final difficulties with Becky Sharp were concerned, not as anticipated with color, but with sound-re-recording the sound track by a new RCA process. Last week, its release date was postponed to June...
That some of the Whitney fortune would find its way into cinema has been inevitable ever since Jock Whitney started backing unsuccessful Broadway shows, like his friend Peter Arno's Here Goes...
Bride in 1931. Jock Whitney's literary cronies are Donald Ogden Stewart and Robert Benchley, who spend most of their time in Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...