Word: orpheum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Mr. Howard acquired a new associate in lively Merlin Hall ("Deke") Aylesworth, who will leave the chairmanship of Radio-Keith-Orpheum March 1 to become a Scripps-Howard executive-without-portfolio...
...More Than a Secretary," the second half of the current double bill at the Loew's State and Orpheum runs off with all the honors of the program, such as they are, far outstripping the feeble efforts of Bing Crosby in a particularly juvenile vehicle called "Pennies From Heaven...
...ground floor of a new company, were lofted to riches by stock splits, stock dividends. Not related so loudly are accounts of the stockholder who got in on the ground floor, soon found himself in the basement, then the subbasement. Such a story could be written around Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. in seven chapters...
Chapter 1. RKO was formed in October 1928 as a holding company for Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp., F. B. O. (Film Booking Office) Productions, Inc. and a half-dozen other subsidiaries engaged in vaudeville and cinema businesses. RKO then embarked upon an expansion program, acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from...
...Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp., biggest U. S. investment trust, paid Radio $5,000,000 for half of its interest in RKO, with an option on the rest to be exercised before the end of 1937. Joining Atlas in the purchase was Lehman Bros., interested in Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp...