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High-spot in his two-day testimony dealt with his purchase (February-June 1929) of a controlling interest in Loew's, Inc. The deal cost him $73,000,000. Because it included Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as well as the Loew theatres, the deal made Mr. Fox incomparably the No. 1 Cinema Man. U. S. anti-trust laws, however, frown on such acquisition of shares in a competing company, and Mr. Fox kept after the Department of Justice to see if he could get an official okay on the transaction. He actually bought the Loew shares on the strength...
Soon Mr. Fox saw Mr. Huston again. This time Mr. Huston asked him if he knew Louis Burt Mayer. Since Louis Mayer, besides being a potent California Republican, was also the Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (which Mr. Fox was absorbing), Mr. Fox knew him very well. He also knew that Mr. Mayer did not approve of the terms of the Loew sale. So Mr. Fox looked up Mr. Mayer...
Today, Mr. Fox, Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Hoover have the common bond of being ex-presidents and Mr. Dodge is an ex-vice president. Harley Clarke's General Theatres Equipment company is in a receivership and so is Fox Theatres. Loew's, Inc. (and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), again independent, remain solvent and prosperous, having made a profit of $4,034,000 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1933. But the disputed 660,000 shares of Loew's. Inc. (the majority holdings bought by Mr. Fox) have been segregated by the U. S. Government. They may be sold...
...Eskimo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a report of goings-on in the snowfields, some naive, some sophisticated, but almost all unusual, spectacular, disturbing. Most enthralling sequences are those which exhibit: its hero, Mala, engaged in hunting a whale, which nearly upsets his boat with it's tail; dignified walruses which almost succeed in gnashing him with their tusks; caribou, of which a herd stampedes through a valley, over a hill, across a beach and into the water, where Mala and his companions harpoon them. There are, also, less healthy exercises to be seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala...
William S. Van Dyke (Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas, Tarzau the Ape Man, The Prizefighter and the Lady), is the director whom Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assigns regularly to nature stories or, by analogy, pictures with leading men like Johnny Weissmuller or Max Baer. For Eskimo, he and a staff of 42 assistants including Chef Emile Ottinger of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel spent $1.500,000 and nine months on location at Teller, Alaska, 100 mi. below the Arctic Circle. Less courageous than they appear to be in the picture, the Eskimo extras whom Van Dyke hired...