Word: schencks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Cinema Producer Joseph Schenck went to Florida last winter, he said his purpose was to look over studio sites for the companies of which he is president-United Artists and Twentieth Century, youngest and liveliest of the producing units whose pictures United Artists distributes (TIME, March 18). All but credulous Florida boosters supposed that his real purpose was to help the industry scare the California Legislature out of passing a proposed 35% income-tax bill. In Florida, Producer Schenck conferred with President Sidney Kent of Fox, ostensibly about a wild plan to have Florida...
...Producer Schenck, who resigned last week as president of United Artists, will become chairman of the board for Fox, where Kent will remain as president. Twentieth Century will move from the United Artists lot at Hollywood to the enormous Fox studio at Fox Hills. Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, who has proved his lively and eccentric skill as a producer by such films as Les Miserables, Cardinal Richelieu, Clive of India, The Affairs of Cellini, The House of Rothschild, will become a Fox vice president. The combined companies will together produce a minimum of 55 pictures a year...
...theatres at all, exists solely as a medium for the producing genius of excitable little Darryl Zanuck. The company was organized two years ago when Zanuck squabbled with Warner Brothers, where he had worked up from comedy script writer to production chief. He persuaded United Artists' President Schenck to back his new company, release its productions. The split between Twentieth Century and United Artists started when Sam Goldwyn, who had been United Artists' No. 1 producer, decided that the new company was getting more than its share of attention. On the Fox lot, where Producer Schenck...
...real estate boom of 1923-26. Disgruntled threats to go to Florida have been heard from the cinema industry every time California proposes a new tax on cinema production. Last week the California Legislature was considering a 35% income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes...
Less disadvantageous than it used to be in the days of much outdoor photography is the fact that southern Florida, besides being hotter than southern California in summer, is flat as a pancake, lacks all scenery except swamps, beaches, palms, truck gardens and fruit groves. Said optimistic Joe Schenck last week: "Transportation is the major asset and you have that. . . . If we have to have mountains, it isn't very far to the Carolinas...