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Like a fraternity pledge on initiation day, President Arthur M. Loew of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) marched warily into his first annual meeting last week after barely two months in the job. He found his stockholders in no mood to spare the paddles. What made them mad was Loew's earnings, down $1,265,578 in fiscal 1955 from 1954's $6,577,311, and down again in 1956's first fiscal quarter to a mere $248,161, or 5? a share...
...direction. The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown. Spang in the middle of a firm prosperity, the production pattern of three decades is dissolving. The mighty major studios, which have dominated U.S. moviemaking since L. B. Mayer founded the M-G-Mpire, have been brought to humbling terms by a spectacular revolt of the stars. Hollywood, which thought it had seen everything, is seeing something new beneath the California sun: the cinemogul with a profile...
Last month Euratom got a helping hand from the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. He invited Rene Mayer, Monnet's successor as president of the Coal and Steel Community to visit Washington next month to talk up Euratom...
...Nicholas M. Schenck, 72, last cinemogul to head a major film company continuously from the silent movies to CinemaScope, stepped from president and chief executive officer to board chairman of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Manhattan radio station WMGM, M-G-M records, etc.). Loew's new boss: Arthur Marcus Loew, 58, whose father founded the original theater chain (which by U.S. court order is now a separate company) and merged three fledgling moviemakers into MGM. Arthur Loew attended Alexander Hamilton Institute and New York University ('18), enlisted in the Navy in World...
This cancellation was necessitated last week when the film library of the Museum of Modern Art notified the organization that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had withdrawn the movie from public circulation...