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...true-blooded Irish men and women, such activity is neither funny nor characteristic?said the Irish World of New York last week. That newspaper demanded that all cinema producers and particularly the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. which filmed The Callahans and the Murphys cease to "hold the Irish people up to ridicule...
...facts true a year ago. At present Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. has as active competitors: Entertainment, Inc. (Pathe, First National, Keith plus Orpheum [TIME, June 13]); Roxy-Fox (Fox Film Corp. plus Roxy's Theatre [TIME, April 4]) ; Loew's Inc. (Loew's theatres plus Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures) ; Universal Pictures Corp...
Because wages constitute three-fifths of the cost of producing films, General Manager Richard A. Rowland of First National Pictures Corp. said last week that his company also would reduce wages to a degree as then not determined. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 13 other companies are expected to follow suit. Altogether, these producers will save very near to $10,000,000 a year on their payrolls...
Then came tirades against U. S. cinema productions. Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms was propaganda, his papers snarled. U. S. investors in Famous Players-Lasky and in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not like this. Their companies had joined a year ago to lend Ufa, Germany's largest cinema producer and controller of 130 theatres in the Reich, $4,000,000. The money was safe, being protected by a mortgage on the great Ufa theatre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. But such articles were not polite; they were invidious...