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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...censorship was clamped down on all references to the scandal. Several footless efforts were made to prop up the sagging company. Last week came the end when Phönix-Wien disbanded, three directors were arrested, and from its ashes rose a new insurance company called Austrian Insurance Co. Ltd., capitalized at only $2,000,000. Foreign Phönix policyholders will have to stand their loss. The new company hopes to save Austrian policies with a 5% premium rise, a special tax on other Austrian insurance companies...
...only that he had rid himself of two pushing, self-willed associates who had been trying to edge in on the power & glory which rightfully belonged to him. Promptly the 69-year-old onetime country doctor popped out with a "plan of democratic management" for Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. which he said he had been preparing for months. Hereafter, said he, a seven-man board of directors would "assist me in completing the final chapter of the history we are writing for a better day." Furthermore, a national advisory committee chosen by Townsend Clubs would "counsel with...
Things to Come (London Films) is a $1,400,000, two-hour cinematic summary of the history of the next 100 years. It marks the debut of Herbert George Wells as a screenwriter. It places Alexander Korda's London Film Productions Ltd. on a par with Hollywood for production power as well as brains. It tells an extraordinary story which, while it may not convince cinemaddicts, is likely to captivate them...
...enough of its methods to last him a lifetime. The Private Life of Henry VIII, which he produced on a shoestring in 1933 and which made cinema stars of five actors in the cast from Charles Laughton to Merle Oberon, got him the backing of Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. It also gave him a chance to explore on a grand scale his own ideas about cinema production, crystallized by a distaste for those of the U. S. industry...
...profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it was a short step to the conclusion that the payroll of London Film Productions, Ltd. was the proper place for an author like H. G. Wells. Few writers of comparable distinction have ever worked in Hollywood. Most of these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells, who was on the set most of the time Things to Come was in production...