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...grown up with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school at twelve, Pamela talked herself into a London movie career...
...Manhattan Nick Schenck stormed that he and Brother Joe "emphatically object to the Ostrer-Maxwell agreement," growling: "We feel we have a deal there, and we expect to make an issue...
When Isidore Ostrer returned home to jell this deal, he ran into difficulties in Wardour Street, Britain's cinema centre...
According to its articles of association, Gaumont control must remain in British hands. It was not quite clear where real control would rest when the Schencks and Ostrers finished their shuffling, but the patriotic assumption was that Hollywood would be a great deal deeper in Gaumont than before. As summer passed it became evident that the Ostrer-Schenck deal was not jelling...
This year Gaumont's need for new capital, which had sent Isidore Ostrer to the U. S. in the first place, inclined the Ostrers to give Mr. Maxwell a hearing. For a small amount of cash, a large amount of Associated British Picture stock, the Ostrers consented to part with their interest in the Gaumont holding company, unless the Schencks should obstruct the deal that will make John Maxwell the undisputed King of British cinema, with a chain of 640 theatres and corporate assets of some...