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Troubles for CBS may not be over. Wall Streeters suggest that Loew's chairman, Laurence Tisch, who has bought 12% of the company and last week became a member of the firm's board of directors, might try to acquire CBS himself or with some corporate raiders. Says Edward Atorino of Smith Barney: "CBS hoped that bringing this fox into the hen house would keep away other foxes. The trick is not going to work." No one yet knows the plot of the final episode in this CBS series. TELEPHONES Demon Dialers Beware...
...Loew's hotel ballroom in Nashville. He's making a very inspired speech. It's the room where he celebrated his 1984 Senate victory. The chorus line today has been 'Join us now!' which is an apparent appeal for crossover votes...
...Jawbreaker screens at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. at Loew's 84th Street Theatre...
...major step up for Mayer was entertainment tycoon Marcus Loew's reaching out to him as commanding officer of a new company merging Metro and Goldwyn, with Mayer soon adding his big M to the mix. He raised the contract system to a state of the art, using it to rule over a stable of stars who were legally bound to the company for years. In L.B.'s studio, with frail, dedicated lieutenant Irving Thalberg at his side, L.B. worked hard to project himself as a father figure to his extended family of stars, directors and producers...
...cinema world there came the announcement, last week, that henceforth William Fox, head of Fox Film Corp., would produce only talking pictures. Inasmuch as Talker Fox, through his recent acquisition of Loew's, Inc., had become possibly Greatest Film Man (succeeding Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp.) his announcement was widely interpreted as "dooming" the silent picture. Furthermore, as Mr. Fox also announced that he had secured the services of some 200 "legitimate" actors, stage-directors, dialog writers and dramatists, singers, dancers and musical comedy producers and composers, it was also felt that the entire theatrical world...