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...activity in the stock of General Foods Corp. was explained last week with the revelation that Bancamerica-Blair has bought 400,000 shares or 7% of the company's common stock from "private interests." Although the only change in General Foods will be the election of Hunter S. Marston, Bancamerica-Blair president, to the Board, some significance was attached to the fact that Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise...
Elected. Hunter S. Marston, 44; to be president of Bancamerica-BIair Corp.; to succeed Elisha Walker, lately elected board chairman of Transamerica Corp...
...SOUND PICTURES-Walter B. Pitkin & William M. Marston-Appleton...
This book tells how to write for the talkies, incidentally plots out the talkies' field, tells some of their difficulties, predicts some of their triumphs. Say Authors Pitkin & Marston: "The talkie is a new art. It is as distinct from the silent picture as the silent picture is distinct from a stage play." Its limitations are definite. "[The successful talkie] must avoid all explanations, printed or spoken, which involve words beyond the comprehension of an ordinary ten-year-old child...
...basis of the talkie is dialog-not dramatic or literary dialog, but "elementary," sometimes mere grunts and wheezes. "The only people who have had much experience with elementary dialog are a few of our most popular writers of best sellers and the writers of vaudeville sketches." Authors Pitkin & Marston explain the mechanics of sound pictures, admit that their development is just getting under way, prophesy that they will complete the subjugation of the "legitimate" theatre. "The stage must pass, except as a rehearsal spot for companies preparing sound pictures...