Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Mr. Rose now needed was someone to put up another $125,000 to match his. This he got through Pioneer Pictures from its chief, John Hay Whitney, generous angel of the amusement industry. Last week Mr. Whitney and his aristocratic wife, clad mostly in black sequins and carrying a lap dog, were having the time of their lives shuttling between the three widely separated places where Jumbo was taking final form...
...company took over all assets and contracts of David 0. Selznick Productions, announced it had no stock to sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
Chicago's Planetarium bears the name of Merchant Max Adler (Sears, Roebuck), Philadelphia's that of Soapmaker Samuel S. Fels (Fels-Naptha), Los Angeles' that of the late Griffith Jennings Griffith, rich pioneer settler. The planetarium opened with suitable pomp in Manhattan last week is named for clapper Bachelor-Banker Charles Hayden, 65, director of some 70 corporations...
Oldest Episcopal church in California is San Francisco's Trinity, to which the State's wealthiest pioneer families used to belong. With changing times, Trinity was left stranded in a district of middle-class apartment houses. But with some old parishioners remaining, the old church still maintains an air of conservative respectability. For more than a year Trinity has been looking for a rector. Its vestry scrutinized the qualifications of 60 Episcopal ministers in 16 states. Finally, last August, the vestry issued its call-to a young man who is an enrolled Socialist, a vice president of Consumers...
Brown Co. was a pioneer in the newsprint field but abandoned it in favor of kraft papers just before the War. Coarse, heavy paper still accounts for nearly one-third'of Brown's business but its trade fame now rests on pulps. In 1924 its research chemist developed a highly-purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last...