Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Human Bondage (Radio-Keith-Orpheum...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum, still considered Hollywood's most mismanaged studio, was last week once more in the throes of reorganization. Pandro Berman resigned as production chief to head a small unit of his own. Of the 35 pictures which RKO released in the last half of 1933. only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little...
...Manhattan, first was Radio-Keith Orpheum, which subsided into receivership early last year. Boom-time theatre rentals got RKO, and even a voluntary reorganization, which gave control to Radio Corp. of America, was of no avail. Quick to join the sad parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn...
...grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under the inspired name of Immenso Champernoon...
...original, with the result that their version bears no other resemblance to it than the title. Admirers of Hans Fallada's "Little Man What Now" will find that Frank Borzage has made a thoroughly enjoyable and faithful version of this much discussed novel, which is to be seen at Keith's this week. Though hampered by a rather sentimental and undistinguished plot, this talented director has nearly succeeded, with the aid of a nearly succeeded, with the aid of a splendid cast, in giving us another "Seventh Heaven...