Word: loews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Friday evening at the Roseland-State Ballroom, you'll be able to hear Duke in more suitable surroundings. He can make his own choices there. The Roseland is near Loew's State in Back...
...Loew's State-Orpheum...
...nervous, impulsive bachelor, Grauman has not drunk for 30 years. But he smokes four packs of cigarets a day, plays gin rummy for high stakes all night, breakfasts in midafternoon. He loves gags and practical jokes, once got Marcus Loew to give an impassioned pep talk in a darkened room to 75 dummies; once persuaded Charlie Chaplin to enter a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest. Chaplin won third prize: $1. Grauman credits all his success to "the Big Boss Upstairs"-"God," he says, "does my shows...
...motion picture companies last week got something they could really call colossal: a cocky, teen-aged messenger barged into their showy Manhattan offices, left checks totaling over $42,500,000-the biggest single batch of cash Hollywood has ever seen. The checks, ranging from $11,267,000 for Loew's Inc. to $2,113,000 for Columbia Pictures Corp. represented money owed by British film distributors ever since the outbreak of war in 1939 when the Exchequer abruptly barred all cash payments...
Already the criticism has had its effect. Nicholas Schenk, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has announced that Ayres will never get his job back with MGM. And since Metro is a subsidiary of Loew's, Inc., which controls almost half of the country's movie houses, it is not hard to predict that attitude of at least a large proportion of the country's theatre-owners in regard to exhibiting Ayres's films. Moreover, it is probable that what few managers have the courage to show his pictures will meet with a stiff boycott, arising not from spontaneous public opinion...