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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (United Artists -Joseph Schenck) was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Samuel Behrman. scored by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart. directed by Lewis Milestone and acted by, among others, Al Jolson...
...become an Ambassador is flattering, but running an embassy is an expensive business. Only the wealthy can pretend to such a post." The onetime Mayor declared that after a long rest he would probably represent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema interests in France. Said MGM's President Nicholas M. Schenck in New York: "This is absolutely news to me." Meanwhile a Brooklyn judge appointed a receiver to sequester all Jimmy Walker's property in behalf of his creditors...
Said onetime Film Actress Norma Talmadge, wife of Film Producer Joseph M. Schenck, denying reports that she had guaranteed the agreement of her vaudeville partner George Jessel to pay $100,000 to his recently divorced wife: ''With Mr. Jessel's ability to earn $10,000 a week, it seems ridiculous that anyone should be asked to guarantee a paltry $100,000 property settlement...
...rides across a wheat field that seems to be exploding under his horse's hoofs. Behind him is his staff, impersonated by some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand...
...pair of shoes which cost $3.50 but which, he says, have cost $1,400 to keep repaired. He has an apartment in Manhattan, a home in Florida, another in Great Neck, L. I. Once he owned the mansion in Great Neck where now lives Cinemagnate Nicholas Schenck. He likes bicycles, collects books of wit. He thinks his joke collection is the world's largest. He plays several musical instruments. He is married, has a son, Frank Keenan. When he first saw his wife (Hilda Keenan) he exclaimed, "She is the cutest thing in girls I ever...