Word: loews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highball in the Hollywood tradition, but a formal statement confirming the biggest cinema deal of the year. Then Mr. Schenck plunked himself down in the centre of a divan, flanked by the two other principals in the triple play: his younger brother and competitor, President Nicholas Michael Schenck of Loew's, Inc., and President Isidore Ostrer of Gaumont-British Pictures Corp...
...should be done to lessen international cinema competition. When he mentioned this to Joe Schenck, that U. S. cineman agreed with him. And since plenty of cash might further the idea, they mentioned it to Nick Schenck, who not only runs the most consistently profitable U. S. cinema company, Loew's Inc., but also its prodigious production subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After much shuttling between London, Manhattan and Hollywood, Isidore Ostrer and Nick Schenck were able to sit down with Joe Schenck last week and face the Press united.* Their deal...
With their drugstore profits they snapped up a beer concession at the end of a Manhattan streetcar line in the early 1900's when trolley riding was a regular holiday sport. There they were discovered by the late Marcus Loew, who knew smart showmen when he saw them. The theatre man helped them develop Palisades Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan, which they still own, gave them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew...
Easily the most arresting offering of the in-town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching...
...Montreal's Loew's Theatre, McGill University marched for its annual convocation, for a farewell to stumpy, grizzled oldtime Humorist Stephen Leacock (Nonsense Novels). Retiring at 66 after 33 years in McGill's department of political economy, Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract...