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...Michael Loew favors the primordial: "Because the geometric aspect of the rectangular structure can be both tyrannical and primordial, the problem of reducing the former quality and increasing the latter becomes a challenge...
...figures most attractive to moviedom's magnates are the seductive black ones in their accounting books. Last week Loew's (MGM) reported earnings of $1.08 per share for the 28 weeks ended March 12, a gain of almost 1,000% over a year earlier. United Artists Corp. announced that it boosted revenues 20% and earnings 30% for 1958 to set new records. In 1959, higher earnings have been reported by Warner Bros., National Theatres, Inc., 20th Century-Fox and Columbia...
...PEACE AT LOEWS seems assured by purchase of 235,000 Loew's shares by a group led by Nathan Cummings, chairman of Consolidated Foods Corp. Cummings, a friend of management, strengthened Loew's President Joseph Vogel, threatened with a proxy fight by stockholders opposing his plan to sell Loew's theaters, build up M-G-M as a moviemaker...
MOVIEMAKER LOEW'S INC. will spin off theater and radio operations in new company. Management was up against antitrust order to separate film and theater business by August 1959, has won fight against minority group of directors who want to spin off troubled M-G-M filmmaker. M-G-M will stay in parent firm...
After that, snaking through Washington Street came a car caravan with the Mayors of Woburn, Malden, Melrose. Chelsea, Somerville, and Watertown. The procession reached Loew's Orpheum in twenty minutes. They were expected. Huge banners hung across Washington Street, and a bank of gigantic revolving search-lights striped the air white and red. By the time the important guests began to arrive, the crowd was a panting mass of humanity. Police lines were trampled and girls screamed...