Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood was not surprised last week when Jesse Louis Lasky quit as Paramount's first vice president in charge of production. Four months ago he had had a three-month "leave of absence." Soon Paramount's eastern office announced his resignation. The West Coast office and Mr. Lasky denied it. Last month the leave of absence was extended one month. It expired last week as Vice President Lasky sat day after day squabbling with Vice President Sam Katz. What Mr. Katz did not say was that Mr. Lasky was no longer wanted in Paramount. What Mr. Lasky...
...film world has changed vastly since 1914 when Jesse Lasky with Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil Blount DeMille produced The Girl of the Golden West and The Warrens of Virginia. In 1916 the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. joined Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Co. and Paramount Pictures Corp. (distributing agency) to become Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Hollywood thought that the shy, egg-headed Lasky and Adolph Zukor concealed a griping rivalry behind their affability. Presently Benjamin Percival Schulberg became Lasky's man: managing director of production. Sidney Kent was Zukor's man: general manager...
...Night Club Lady (Columbia). Scheduled for last week at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre was Night Mayor, patterned after New York's slick James J. ("Jimmy") Walker who resigned last week. It was suppressed, and The Night Club Lady, a murder mystery in which all the suspects have a motive for killing the victim, substituted. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) is a wrestling devotee who constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives...
...York who week-ended at the Blumenthal estate in Larchmont last fortnight between sessions of his trial at Albany (see p. 14). Though more at home in a hotel than a courtroom, Fixer Blumenthal made news last week because of his law suits. As owner of $25,000 of Paramount Publix Corp. bonds. Fixer Blumenthal sued that company to set aside an agreement by which Paramount last March had pledged 23 of its films as the chief collateral for a $9,500,000 loan. Because Paramount transferred the films to a subsidiary, strengthened the loan with other promises. Fixer Blumenthal...
...Last week Paramount bonds were selling at 40? on (he dollar, up 30? from their depression...