Word: nick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About a year ago dapper Brother Isidore decided that something should be done to lessen international cinema competition. When he mentioned this to Joe Schenck, that U. S. cineman agreed with him. And since plenty of cash might further the idea, they mentioned it to Nick Schenck, who not only runs the most consistently profitable U. S. cinema company, Loew's Inc., but also its prodigious production subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After much shuttling between London, Manhattan and Hollywood, Isidore Ostrer and Nick Schenck were able to sit down with Joe Schenck last week and face the Press united...
...Nick Schenck's M-G-M will buy from Joe Schenck's Fox one-half its Gaumont-British interest. Asked how much M-G-M would pay for this half interest, Joe Schenck dismissed the question as an "unimportant detail." After the Brothers Schenck settle that "detail" between themselves, the deal will proceed to a second phase, which involves selling Gaumont control to the British public, a detail which will presumably be arranged by the Brothers Ostrer. In the end, instead of Fox owning 49% of the controlling holding company, the Ostrers...
...might follow the family profession also. This was last year when Tom Di Maggio, acting as his manager, in a financial dispute with the management of the Seals, threatened to take Joe out of baseball and put him on a fishing boat. Joe was willing, but in the nick of time a settlement was reached whereby Joe got $6,500 of the price for which his club had agreed to sell him to the Yankees. The Seals profited handsomely because Joe Di Maggio won the league pennant almost singlehanded. but to San Francisco's crabs the deal made...
...Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection...
...Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...