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...theatres), RKO Productions, Inc. (cinema production), National Broadcasting Co. (broadcasting). Recently it acquired an option on the patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed a new publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other...
...Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed...
Radio Music Co. has another function. It intends to discover new music, encourage new composers. It is tired of jazz, wants melody. Its President Edwin Claude Mills† last week said: "We are not interested in 'reform.' We are not trying to get ourselves into such a rarified atmosphere that nobody could live in it with us. . . . We have had perhaps too much of jazz and it seems about time for some one to assume leadership in a movement away from the cacophony of most music of the day. I think we should get back to melody...
...Hollywood are the new $75,000,000 studios of Fox Film Corp, Throughout the U. S. are some 1,200 theatres controlled by Fox Theatres Corp. In almost every country are Fox distributing agencies. In sole command of the Fox organization was, until last week, William Fox who from an investment of $1,667 built the entire structure, amassed a personal fortune once estimated at over...
...organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute Fox Theatres stock to his patrons (TIME, Oct. 21) before the stockmarket crashed...