Word: schencks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Joseph Michael Schenck, president of United Artists, said his company would not let its pictures appear in Fox theatres anywhere in the country. His accusation: that the Fox West Coast chain of 400 theatres was trying to establish a monopoly. His reason: Fox West Coast Theatres were refusing to pay what United Artists thought their pictures were worth.* His proposed plan of combat: building United Artists Theatres in 18 cities and meanwhile exhibiting the company's product in armories and tents if necessary. Possible result: temporary boycotting of Fox theatres, if other companies share Mr. Schenck's conviction...
...began to disband the staff of technicians who have worked for her for years. She let go Abbe Rahm, her head camera man and Arthur Zoellner, exploitation chief. She will not make her future films, if any, as an actress-producer, but simply as an actress, bossed by Joseph Schenck...
Died. Joseph Thuma ("Joe") Schenck, 38. tenor half of "Van & Schenck," variety's, famed, "highest-salaried" ($3,000 weekly) male song team; suddenly, of heart disease; at Detroit...
Twenty years ago, passengers on the Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, carline used to ride past their destinations, beguiled by the vocal harmony which the trolley's crew furnished. August Van Glove was the motorman, Joseph Thuma Schenck the conductor. Later they bolstered their act with a piano which Conductor Schenck played; entertained professionally in the back room of a saloon, then in smalltime vaudeville houses (their first appearance was, perforce, in overalls), then in big-time vaudeville theatres as "Van & Schenck-the pennant-winning battery of songland." Favorite Van & Schenck numbers: "When You're a Long, Long Way from...
...Some other great lives: John Charles Martin, $6,540,000; William Fox, $6,500,000; Joseph M. Schenck, $5,025,000; Jesse L. Lasky, $5,000,000; Adolph Zukor, $5,000,000.-ED. 100 Glasses Cold Beer