Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
...exact imitation of the more popular dance styles. Raphael, the well known concertina player, has, under his French plumber's exterior, the soul and talent of the lighter and more dazzling classics which stop the show for numerous encores. The Rocky brothers dance lightly and spiritedly with their comely partner, Helen Gray, and Pils and Tabet sing several very funny songs with delightful zest. The musical backround is provided by Iza Volpin's very capable continental quartet...
...York. They helped form the Cotton Exchange, floated bonds for traction and ferry companies, backed early issues of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth preferred. Mayer died in 1897, Emanuel in 1912. The present partnership includes four Lehmans, five non-Lehmans. Philip Lehman, 74, son of Emanuel, is patriarch and senior partner, presides at meetings in the partners' room on the third floor of Lehman Bros, eleven-story building at No. 1 William St. Senior Partner Lehman has a collection of Madonnas which is probably worth even more than his interest in the firm...
Arthur Lehman, No. 2 partner, son of Mayer (and brother of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman) is head of The Lehman Corp., an investment trust which the brothers founded in September 1929. He collects tapestries, heads Jewish charity drives, gave Lehman Hall (administration building) to Harvard in 1924, married Adele Lewisohn. Allan Lehman, grandson of Mayer and son of the late Sigmund Lehman, likes tennis, squash, fishing. From the Restigouche River in New Brunswick he sends home salmon to his friends, his acquaintances, his barber. Robert Lehman, grandson of Emanuel and son of Philip, married Ruth Owen Meeker...
...turn in expense accounts. But he cut off so many heads and stepped on so many toes that in 1933 he resigned, reputedly over the question of John Hertz authority versus Adolph Zukor authority. The second retirement also failed to take, and in January 1934 he became a Lehman partner...