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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...
Having arrived at the convention, Sir Henri made what is reputed to be his first formal speech, talked on "Common Sense in the Oil Industry," said no more about his "no compromise" position. Said he: "The idea that it might be possible that the 'collecting department' [that which supplies the public] could be some Government or combination of buyers who will dictate to the producer the minimum with which he ought to be content so that he may be kept alive, is bound to be shortlived because it is entirely illogical. . . . Do not be led away by the noise...
...other hand, although the government failed to endorse the American Petroleum Institute's national program of oil restriction, oilmen have made marked progress through state-by-state restriction agreements. There is no overproduction problem in Pennsylvania fields; Texas oilmen have on the whole cooperated enthusiastically with the restriction plan; encouraging progress has been made in the Mid-Continent (Oklahoma) fields. California, however, is the crucial point. California increased its production 40% in 1929 and now produces 30% of the U. S. output. Last summer the California legislature passed the Lyon Act, a measure ostensibly designed to prevent wastage of natural...
...Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from an operating company to its present holding company status. He was one of the first oilmen...
Young Sinners reveals Raymond Guion as a young libertine who regains his wind and his principles in the Adirondacks. Playwright Elmer Harris has made a bid for the prurient trade with a sex lecture more graphic than graceful...