Word: loews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night, after much ado in the Boston papers, "Lassie Come Home" arrived at the Loew's State and Orpheum theatres. Surprising as it may seem after reading the rather insipid advertisements, the picture is one of the finest to come out of MGM in recent years. It ranks, as the ads have said, with "Random Harvest" and "Mrs. Miniver." But, instead of the case being "great books make great pictures," it is a situation where the acting of a collie has made an overly-sentimental book into a really touching picture...
...last week issued its regular report on corporate salaries above $75,000 a year, reporters accustomed to writing the yearly story about the lush pay of Hollywood stars blinked and looked again. No. 1 on the list was no surprise: as usual, it was the Majmifico of the Movies, Loew's and M.G.M.'s cold-eyed Louis Burt Mayer. But No. 2 was a brand-new name: Carl Gustave Swebilius, head of a New Haven, Conn, engineering outfit called Dixwell Corp., and of two subsidiaries aptly named High Standard Manufacturing Co. and High Standard Manufacturing Corp...
Willie prattled on. He told the Court how he worked a big Hollywood deal: "I told Nicholas Schenck [president of Loew's, Inc.] to get together with other producers and get a couple of millions together. Schenck threw up his hands in the air and raved. I told him if he didn't get the others together we would close every theater in the country." The major studios eventually settled for $50,000 a year, the minor studios for $25,000 for the privilege of doing business...
...went happily down Broadway, repeating in every theater, the Rialto, the Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
...Loew's State and Orpheum...