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Divorced. Norma Talmadge, 36, old-time cinemactress; from Producer Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists Corp.; after a six-year separation; in Juarez, Mexico. Questioned about the divorce Actor George Jessel, whose possible marriage to Miss Talmadge has been rumored by friends, said: "That's fine. . . . I think she's very nice...
Nicholas M. Schenck (Loew...
...noteworthy development since talkies. Unsympathetic to drawing room comedy, Cinderella romance, mechanical spectacle or pure pornography, Producer Zanuck likes to deal lightheartedly with episodic scenarios about lively, colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters. When Zanuck left Warners, Producer Joe Schenck, who recently has been interested in horse racing at Agua Caliente, furnished Zanuck with cash to produce his pictures at United Artists' studio (like Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed...
...provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha Walker, Paul M. Warburg, Felix...
...awkward position. He had persuaded Warners' indignant employes to take the cut in the first place. He resigned (TIME, April 24) without demanding a settlement for his contract which had 4½ years to run, soon announced plans to form an independent producing company with Joseph Schenck, president of United Artists, for his partner. After the resignation, Warner Brothers changed their minds, agreed to pay salaries in full from April...