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...TIME, March 28) Elmer Pearson, vice president and general manager of Pathe Exchange Inc., conducted quiet pourparlers with President Elisha Walker of Blair & Co. (investment bankers who control the Pathe Co.); with General Manager John J. Murdock of B. F. Keith Corp. (vaudeville theatres), President Mark E. Heiman of Orpheum Circuit Inc. (vaudeville theatres) and Cinema Director Cecil B. De Mille (whose productions Producers Distributing Corp. have handled...
...year tie-up of their interests. Pathe will make (in addition to its present newsreels and short length pictures) feature films. Director DeMille will turn over to the group his features already produced and new ones to come. Keith Corp. will supply the 50 theatres it controls, Orpheum Circuit its 47. And, to pay expansion expenses, Pathe will enlarge its capital, under Blair & Co.'s direction, from $4,000,000 to $10,000,000. Keith Manager Murdock will become President of Pathe Exchange...
James Maloney, one of South Boston's two contenders for champion Gene Tunney's heavyweight crown, found time between a series of strenuous three-round exhibition bouts at Loew's Orpheum Theatre, to divulge the innermost workings of the prizefighters' mind to a CRIMSON reporter...
...Vaudeville theatres are organized into "circuits" or "time"-Keith, Orpheum, Pantages, etc. Pantages' "Time" controls vaudeville bookings for theatres in the West...
...Positively the greatest cast ever assembled appears in The Mauve Decade," the copy ran. (Grizzled gentry remembered the yellow posters outside a dozen Orpheum Theatres.) "Stirring scenes," it read on, "from early history are here presented for the first time in any book. See the majestic funeral of Emerson, the pitiful arrest of Coxey's army-" (Ah, yes, just so read a showboat's handbills when they played Uncle Tom down the Mississippi Valley)-"and The- odore Roosevelt (in person) putting-aside questions of state to decide more intimately those of the wardrobe. . . . Thomas Beer conclusive- ly proves...