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Over the next seven years, other trainers learned to worry when Ben Jones came into sight. He had hard-hitting horses?Joe Schenck, Inscoelda, Technician, Rifted Clouds, Lady Broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...theater on Manhattan's Bowery to while away the time. As far as the direction of his own life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Russian-born Joe Schenck was one of the somebodies-and he has made much more than a million. He controls an estimated $50 million worth of theaters and a big chunk of stock in 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., which he and Darryl Zanuck formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Allied States Assn. of Motion Picture Exhibitors: "If film rentals rise, admission prices will have to be increased; and thus the motion-picture industry will be handicapped in its race with competing amusements . . ." In Manhattan, some exhibitors are threatening to boycott Fox films. Even Fox's own Joe Schenck-now that he is to be only an exhibitor-may find himself on the other side of the bargaining fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prelude to Divorce? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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