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Spirit of Fun was the name of the plane in which Arthur M. Loew, 35, son of the late Showman Marcus Loew and vice president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was touring the world. With him were his attorney, Joseph Rosthal, and Pilot James B. Dickson, oldtime Army flyer. Last week the party was nearing Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the opening of a new theatre. At Victoria Falls they started to take off from...
...Loew's State and Orpheum--"Rain." Joan Crawford. "A cloudburst of passion...
...rest, sold West Coast Theatres Co. to William Fox, was retained as Cineman Fox's chief fixer. He was mainly concerned with accumulating properties for Fox Theatres Corp. A shrewd, able negotiator, Fixer Blumenthal piled chain upon chain. He it was who negotiated the famed $50,000,000 Loew's deal for William Fox. Natty, chipmunkish Fixer Blumenthal boasts that after months of dickering he was finally able to close the deal because he correctly interpreted scraps of a conversation he overheard between two foolish daughters of a cinema tycoon who did not know what they were talking...
...astonished at Mr. Aylesworth's advice last week. They could not have been startled by the information that they were in a fierce financial pickle. Since talkies were established in 1928. the cinema business has been going rapidly downhill. Last year was its worst. Of first-line companies, only Loew's, Inc. (of which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the producing subsidiary) made an appreciable profit ($7.43 per share). The others made a panicky attempt to economize by cutting salaries and production costs; to increase efficiency by bizarre shifts in personnel; to increase profits by copying any picture that showed signs...
Ownership in Hollywood confines itself to either a pent house or a woman and in "Possessed," now at Loew's State, there is only the more obvious alternative. It is the tale of a full blown tiger lily who leaves the rather shut eye environment of her plowed fields to seek more stately mansions in New York. But she differs from the other members of her calling in that she is quite frank about her purpose. When first she meets her eventual benefactor she asks him, "Are you rich?" to which he replies "Is that all you want, my money...