Word: loews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam Municipal Museum. Thence, recently, Museum Director Fritz Loew-Beer sent them to the U. S. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wanted the pagoda and throne for an exhibition of Chinese treasures in Manhattan, to raise money for the War Orphans Fund of her good friend Mme Chiang Kaishek...
Although MGM has finally severed the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy due, owing to the "Sweetheart" fiasco, they just couldn't keep them completely apart. The lovers are now sharing the double bill at Loew's State and Orpheum with a change in soul-mates...
Cinema, always the most open-handed U. S. industry, outdid itself in 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. alone paid 240 salaries of $15,000 or more, and M. G. M. and its parent company, Loew's Inc., paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway...
Roland Young and his ectoplasms are back again, doing some congenial caper-cutting on the French Riviera in United Artists' "Topper Takes a Trip." Those who missed the original "Topper" should neglect their education no longer, but whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being smoked in thin air and Roland Young reacting violently to invisible kicks. There are belly laughs a-plenty in the approved Hal Roach manner. Those who have been "Topper" may find that the humor of trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic...
...sometimes said that the motion picture is the Peter Pan of the arts; Walter Wanger and United Artists are fast proving this dictum false. With "Algiers" and now with "Trade Winds," this week at Loew's State and Orpheum, a simple theme has been taken and developed through the ingenious use of technical devices into a powerful and moving drama. This is not to say that from a purely artistic point of view, "Trade Winds" is in a class with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular...