Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What saved the Atlantic City meeting from being altogether colorless and routine was a sudden A. F. of L. interest in unionized racketeering. Before the council, by Investigator Edward F. McGrady, was laid the specific case of President Sam Kaplan of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union Local 306, New York City. The council referred the Kaplan matter to President William C. Elliott of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes who promised "special attention immediately." Then easy-going William Green, A. F. of L. president, came out with a public statement which, for him, sounded like a trumpet blast...
...heart has stood the most severe strains in a wonderful manner. I beg Einstein's pardon, that I compare my heart with the shaft of a perpetual motion contrivance, which does not exist, of course...
...meeting of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, U. S. cinema producers last week heard some startling counsel from Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. Said Mr. Aylesworth: "The industry is facing the economic fact that attendance has fallen from 10,000,000 a day in 1928 to 6,000,000 a day for the first four months of 1932. Film companies are not as independent as they would like to think. . . . If one goes to the wall, they all will." He said that the cinema industry was facing bankruptcy within 90 days. He advised...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
Personnel. First important personnel shift was in Mr. Aylesworth's company nearly a year ago when RKO-Pathe and RKO-Radio merged production facilities, summoned young David O. Selznick from Paramount to take charge. Mr. Selznick was last week selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to head the 1932 committee on awards for achievements in motion pictures. Later RKO directors elected Mr. Aylesworth president in place of Hiram Brown. RKO is better off than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most...