Word: loews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loew's State "A Lady to Love". Reviewed in this issue...
...Loew's State--"Anna Christie", Greta Garbo talks. There's something wrong if you miss this...
...people realize, however, what a highly centralized industry the film business is," Mr. Alstock remarked. "There are just four big companies: Fox, which owns the chain of Loew theatres; Paramount, which controls the Publix theatres; Warner First National; and Radio Keith Orpheum. The latter is under the headship of the Radio Corporation of America. So one great company manufactures the radio sets on which you hear, hires artists to broadcast and to make comedy reels, and owns the theatres in which the reels are shown...
Asked if the time might come when one company alone might control the industry. Mr. Alstock replied, "No, just a short while ago the government instituted suits against an attempted merger of the Warner First National combination with the Fox Loew combine, as the merged concerns, the government claimed, would control 65 per cent of the $2,000,000,000 invested in the business, which is the fourth largest in the country. But the big companies themselves realize the need for strenuous competition. Without it their productions would deteriorate, and a small independent band of good actors who produced...
...Loew's Orpheum--Conrad Nagel in "Dynamite...