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Died. Martin Beck, 71, immigrant dean of vaudeville showmen, who built 65 theatres, brought Sarah Bernhardt to the U. S., ran the old Orpheum circuit for 27 years, retired in 1923 to build and manage his first legitimate theatre, Manhattan's Martin Beck; in Manhattan...
...catalogue than a history, gives a detailed account of the variety show from its rough beer-hall days through its great era when Italian Singer Tony Pastor purified it, to its death. It is a must book for rememberers of such vaudeville chains as the Keith-Albee, Orpheum, Sylvester Z. Poli, Alexander Pantages, Gus Sun, Sullivan & Considine, Fred Mozart, Kohl & Castle, Mike Shea. Sample items from the past of a passing art form...
Professor Me k and Kenneth Roberts may not agree on the history of the westward movement, but they can both make it mighty interesting. Harvard's lecture-hall Leatherstocking brings it to life with words alone, but in "Northwest Passage," now at Loew's State and Orpheum, Kenneth Roberts has the help of Technicolor, gorgeous location scenes, Spencer Tracy, and Robert Young. Tracy plays the superman of frontier tall tales, Major Rogers of Rogers' Rangers, who performs stupendous feats of leadership on a handful of parched corn a day. It is a delight and a pleasure to see him take...
Three years ago Broadcaster Aylesworth left NBC, took a new job as president and chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. Then in 1937, having done what he could for R.K.O., Producer Aylesworth gave up cinema, went to work for the management of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. No lover of the New Deal, he suited President Roy Howard's increasing distaste for the Roosevelt Administration. Last year Roy Howard upped Ray Allen Huber, publisher of the New York World-Telegram, made him general manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers and put Merlin Aylesworth in charge of the World-Telegram...
...youngest in the U. S., at 25). For 20 months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special counsel to First National Pictures, for twelve weeks reorganizer of RCA, for 74 days special adviser to Paramount Pictures. Wherever he was, he was also Joe Kennedy, the Wall Street speculator, who once said: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient...