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Last week the following were news: Mutual expressions of admiration and gratitude were exchanged last week when John Daniel Hertz, 53, resigned as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee. Direct cause of his move was a conflict with President Adolph Zukor, 60 last week, over "the technical limitations upon the authority of various officers.'' Other important resignations from the company in recent months have included Sam Katz, onetime close Hertz ally. Sidney Kent, Jesse Lasky. Mr. Hertz entered Paramount's affairs 14 months ago at the "suggestion" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors...
...Heywood Broun, Lincoln Steffens, Floyd Dell, Director William A. Hodson of the New York Welfare Council, Lawyer Jerome Frank, Vice President Sheldon R. Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence...
...Jubal Early, is expected to be the front office man at the desk now held by Secretary Theodore Joslin. He covered the Navy Department for the Associated Press when Mr. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary, trailed him on his 1920 vice-presidential campaign. An easy, likable gladhander, he served Paramount Publix as Washington contact man. His job will be to steer as many callers as possible away from the President...
...film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from a German concern in 1928) was brought to trial in Brooklyn. Under the name American Tri-Ergon Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph's Western Electric. Both Wall Street and Hollywood regard the suits as Mr. Fox's bid for a comeback...
...Reflecting the low estate of the film business, Fox Film stock was selling last week at $1.88 per share, Paramount Publix at $1.75, Radio-Keith-Orpheum...