Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showmanship on the Coward scale is almost big business. To handle the money end of his affairs he has headquarters in London, where he is called "The Great White Father," another in Manhattan's RKO Building, where there is a photomural of a scene from his Bittersweet. In each of these places, head man is a tall (6 ft.), graceful Yaleman (1922) of 37-John C. Wilson of Trenton, N. J. After college he escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward...
Chapter 1. RKO was formed in October 1928 as a holding company for Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp., F. B. O. (Film Booking Office) Productions, Inc. and a half-dozen other subsidiaries engaged in vaudeville and cinema businesses. RKO then embarked upon an expansion program, acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from...
Chapter 2, Under this arrangement RKO made $1,669,000 in 1929, $3,385,000 in 1930, although nothing was paid on RKO's stock. For $4,700,000 in cash and notes, RKO early in 1931 bought the production and distribution facilities of Pathe Exchange, Inc., whose head had been Joseph Patrick Kennedy, later Securities & Exchange Commission chairman. The deal gave RKO a newsreel, enabled it to plunge further into a cinemaking program which proved costly as the depression deepened...
Interviewing reporters back-stage at the RKO Boston Theatre yesterday, Cantor, clad in shrieking pink underwear, spoke seriously on education...
Make Way for a Lady (RKO) is a resounding contribution to the Five Little Peppers school of cinema, showing what happens when a suburban high-school girl (Anne Shirley) undertakes to manage the sex life of her widowed father (Herbert Marshall). Convinced that he is in love with a lady novelist (Margot Grahame), she tries to wreck his romance with a schoolteacher (Gertrude Michael), does not quite succeed...