Word: loews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...National Dairy Products and General Motors are tied for third. 4) General Electric is again leading heavy industrial after having yielded that position in 1930 to U. S. Steel. Interesting comparisons were that International Nickel is more popular now than American Smelting; Safeway Stores i? ahead of Woolworth; Loew's ahead of Paramount-Publix; National Dairy ahead of Borden. Stocks gaining in popularity included American Light & Traction. Chrysler, Drug, First National Stores. General Foods, United Gas Improvement. Decreases were shown in the number of trusts holding Aluminum Co., American Radiator, Anaconda, Electric Bond & Share, General American Tank, International Telephone...
Anyone who would like to see the two Barrymore brothers, John and Lienel, eneering, smiling, and bowing to each other ever so slightly, but as graciously as only Barrymores can, should see "Arsene Lupin" now playing at Loew's State...