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...film Grass, epic migration of a remote Persian tribe. This he followed with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate producer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum in charge of adventure pictures. Including replacements and the six Polish members the Squadron had a roster of 23. Founder Cooper is the only U. S. member who has made a name for himself in private life. Several of the Poles are high in Polish aviation circles. Author Murray is the only...
Last week in Manhattan Rockefeller Center awarded its third big mural contract to a U. S. artist.- Bearded Boardman Robinson will paint a 16x10 ft. mural in the lobby of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum building. But observers found that sly Artist Robinson had slipped into his design for capitalist Rockefeller Center a vague Communist import. His mural in blue, buffs and warm greys will show from left to right "a man, woman and child; a dog, cow and vegetation, with books and instruments at their feet; a triangular group of skyscrapers, rising above churches, temples, etc. of a former time...
...late autumn Manhattanites will be able to enter the world's biggest theatre, five stories high, spired by 26 stories of Radio-Keith-Orpheum enterprises. In the domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will...
...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...
...brothers were hanging around Harlem jobless. Four years ago vaudeville all over the U. S. was flat on its back. Talking pictures, long & short, were filling entire bills. But talking "shorts" did not satisfy. Today, cinemansions are putting on 60% more flesh & blood acts than in 1929. Radio-Keith-Orpheum spent $12,000,000 on its vaudeville last year. The four Mills Brothers, their engagement at Manhattan's Palace Theatre extended for a third time, rolled about town last week in their automobile driven by a liveried chauffeur...