Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lily Pons, 30, who made her stir four winters ago and already sounds tired. But she lately signed a fat three-year cinema contract with RKO...
...Paramount went into bankruptcy. Unable to carry on alone, Warner Brothers in the course of a mortgage foreclosure lost the lease on the theatres to an operating company headed by Allen L. Snyder which offered more rent. But when the Snyder concern tried to get Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO pictures, it found itself balked. Thereupon the Snyder company last summer complained to the Department of Justice that those companies were conspiring against it by withholding their products from its houses, that they were, in short, violating the Sherman Law. After investigating the complaint, the Grand Jury last week indicted...
...defended himself thus: "We have done nothing but conduct our business in a fair and honest manner. . . . We leased two other theatres in St. Louis suitable for first-run exhibition, and, in the ordinary course of business, solicited and acquired the right to exhibit the product of Paramount and RKO in addition to our own in these theatres...
West of the Pecos (RKO...
...staple of the industry from 1912 until 1928 when sound supplemented sight, "Westerns" have lately been relegated to the oblivion of double-feature bills, week-end matinees for children. On the chance that Legion of Decency approval will give them a new impetus, RKO took special pains with this one. Its story is by Zane Grey. Its cast includes Richard Dix, Martha Sleeper, Louise Beavers and an imitator of Stepin Fetchit who uses a preposterous pseudonym, "Sleep...