Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like an old flame who would not be jilted, RKO Pictures Corp. was back in Howard Hughes's lap last week. For the five-man syndicate, headed by Chicago Punchboard Promoter Ralph Stolkin, which had bought Hughes's controlling interest in RKO for $7,093,940, it was the end of a short flirtation with moviemaking. Unable to control the company because of bad publicity about their past activities (TIME, Oct. 27), the syndicate had tried to sell the stock, but found no takers at anything like the $7 a share it had paid for it. Though...
Though richer by $1,350,000 on the deal, Hughes seemed to be getting no bargain. RKO has been losing $100,000 a week, and has made only one picture in seven months. If Hughes, who has tired of the studio, means to try to sell it again, he will have to put it in better shape first...
Last week the Legion's disapproval of the Chaplin film got powerful support. Wrote RKO Radio's Howard Hughes to John D. Home, chairman of the Hollywood Legion Post's Un-American Activities Committee: "I am a director of the distributing unit of RKO, and I assure you that this company has not touched . . . Limelight in any way whatsoever and has no intention of doing so ... The incident you referred to in your letter is the booking of Limelight by the RKO Theaters Corp. This is a separate corporation . . . Nevertheless ... I have been making a most concerted...
Peter Pan (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is a happy blend of Sir James M. Barrie and Walt Disney. Barrie's durable 49-year-old play about "the boy who would not grow up," with its flights of fancy and its flights through the window, is made to order for the animated cartoon. It is full of "pretend" and all such "various tomfool things" as pixies, pirates, Indians and mermaids, who romp among the grottoes, glades, coves and lagoons of the magical isle of Never Land...
Androcles and the Lion (Gabriel Pascal; RKO Radio) is the first of George Bernard Shaw's plays to be filmed in Hollywood.* The result is a melancholy triumph of Hollywood spectacle and showmanship over Shavian satire and style...