Word: loews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, the program at the Loew's State and Loew's Orpheum this week is pretty flat. William Powell, Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery are amusing enough in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," of course, but the companion piece, a thing called "Dangerous Number," is nothing less than colossal, daring and stupendous in its badness. And the second feature detracts from the first...
...More Than a Secretary," the second half of the current double bill at the Loew's State and Orpheum runs off with all the honors of the program, such as they are, far outstripping the feeble efforts of Bing Crosby in a particularly juvenile vehicle called "Pennies From Heaven...
...future of this oldest and greatest of British cinema companies appeared to have been definitively settled last July, not in London, but in Manhattan. Joseph Michael Schenck, chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., seated appropriately on a hotel divan between his brother, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and the president of Gaumont-British, Isidore Ostrer, announced a three-way Gaumont deal (TIME, Aug. 3). Nick Schenck's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's production subsidiary, was going to buy one-half of Twentieth Century-Fox's minority interest in the Gaumorit-British holding...
...Devil's A Sissy" at Loew's State is proof conclusive that the movies have gone a long way since Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy." The same jolly hoodlumism and almost the same human interest variety of pathos still hold the fort, but "The Devil's A Sissy" is never the less very good drama. Freddy Bartholemew, the pampered but unspoiled child of a jaded Park Avenue millionairess divorcee, takes up a six-month residence in the tough-district home of his penniless father...
...LOEW'S STATE AND ORPHEUM...