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...Loew's Inc., No. 1 movie producer in the U.S., put on a better-than-average financial show last year: its net earnings went up to $12,133,000, 9% above 1941. But the SEC last week revealed that the really supercolossal act of 1942 was put on by Loew's tycoon, Louis Burt Mayer. Mr. Mayer, the highest paid executive in the U.S. (for the sixth consecutive year), scooped up $949,766 in salary and bonus. That figure was 35% above his 1941 earnings, came within 5% of equaling the total increase in Loew's earnings...
This Friday evening at the Roseland-State Ballroom you'll be able to hear Duke Ellington in more suitable surroundings than at the RKO Boston last week. He can make his own choices there and not worry about theatre managers. The Roseland is near Loew's State in Back...
This Friday evening at the Roseland-State Ballroom, you'll be able to hear Duke in more suitable surroundings. He can make his own choices there. The Roseland is near Loew's State in Back...
...Loew's State-Orpheum...
...nervous, impulsive bachelor, Grauman has not drunk for 30 years. But he smokes four packs of cigarets a day, plays gin rummy for high stakes all night, breakfasts in midafternoon. He loves gags and practical jokes, once got Marcus Loew to give an impassioned pep talk in a darkened room to 75 dummies; once persuaded Charlie Chaplin to enter a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest. Chaplin won third prize: $1. Grauman credits all his success to "the Big Boss Upstairs"-"God," he says, "does my shows...