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...Loew's Orpheum: "Chained"--with Joan Crawford. Reviewed in this Jssue. R.K.O. Boston: "The Scariet Letter"--Colleen Moore in au adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic...
Surprising as it may seem the combination of Crawford and Gable has succeeded in turning out a really good picture. "Chained", which at present graces the screen at Loew's Orpheum is a well-directed, smooth running film which should amuse everybody including the kiddies though it is not especially reommended for their consumption...
...Human Bondage (Radio-Keith-Orpheum...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum, still considered Hollywood's most mismanaged studio, was last week once more in the throes of reorganization. Pandro Berman resigned as production chief to head a small unit of his own. Of the 35 pictures which RKO released in the last half of 1933. only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little...
...Manhattan, first was Radio-Keith Orpheum, which subsided into receivership early last year. Boom-time theatre rentals got RKO, and even a voluntary reorganization, which gave control to Radio Corp. of America, was of no avail. Quick to join the sad parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn...