Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one...
For $8,174.500, paunchy, grey-haired Oriental President Lewis Henry, of Elmira, N. Y., sold his company to Nihon Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nippon Mining Co., Ltd.). The deal: $756,700 cash; two payments of $756,700 within 30 and 60 days respectively; $4,542,000 payable by Aug. 31, 1942...
>Aging and ailing is H. (for Hiram) Edward Manville Sr., son of co-founder Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President...
Russian-born Director Lewis Milestone, a job at $1,750. Today Myron Selznick & Co. (listed under both M and S in the Manhattan Telephone Directory as a concession to unsophisticated clients) represents some 200 performers and directors who include most of Hollywood's big names. For getting their jobs...
From his father, fabulous Movie Pioneer Lewis J. ("L. J.") Selznick, who gave him a schoolboy allowance of $1,000 a week, Myron inherited a contempt for small sums of money ("peanuts" to Myron is anything under $5,000 a week), a feud with most of Father Selznick's...