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That did it. The old lions of the movie industry-Nick and Joe Schenck, the Skourases, the Warners, the Cohns, Freeman and Zukor-came roaring out of their dens, heads up, alertly sniffing the trade winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly for the Marbles | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...dark all through the postwar years, Hollywood was hitting the gloomy low notes again last week. Speaking to a mass meeting of some 4,000 M-G-M employees on the concrete areaway in front of sound stage 18, MGM's real boss, President Nicholas M. Schenck of Loew's Inc., spelled out the bad news in unvarnished detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crackdown | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...Schenck had slipped into Hollywood five weeks before, set up a round of interviews with MGM's key personnel, from Production Boss Dore Schary to Bathing Beauty Esther Williams. His conclusion: in the face of a box-office slump and skyrocketing overhead, the time had come for a rigid economy campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crackdown | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...from 25% to 50% on income over $1,000 a week. Unlike 20th Century-Fox, which last year lopped up to 50% off the pay of its high-bracket personnel (but later restored most of it), M-G-M will not cut the pay of writers or directors. But Schenck left no doubt that the days of big-budget, spare-no-expense pictures were over. Best estimate of the total cutbacks: $10 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crackdown | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...restaurant started off modestly. The two largest sponsors -Jock Whitney and the late Bob Benchley, whom Mike had known during his New York nightlife era-subscribed only $350 apiece; Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck, only $300 each. The total take was $7,200, $1,800 short of what Mike had hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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