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David Oliver Selznick, executive vice president in charge of stricken Radio~Keith-Orpheum's film production, resigned after prolonged wrangling with President Benjamin Bertram Kahane of the producing subsidiary...
Personnel. First important personnel shift was in Mr. Aylesworth's company nearly a year ago when RKO-Pathe and RKO-Radio merged production facilities, summoned young David O. Selznick from Paramount to take charge. Mr. Selznick was last week selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to head the 1932 committee on awards for achievements in motion pictures. Later RKO directors elected Mr. Aylesworth president in place of Hiram Brown. RKO is better off than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most...
...explained that he was no Spaniard but a Jew, gives a sensitive and humble portrayal. Max Steiner's musical score is particularly interesting when it blends with and loses itself in the murmuring of the streets. Symphony of Six Million is the second output from RKO since young David Selznick took charge of its production (TIME, Nov. 16). Like "The Lost Squadron," it indicates that he well knows what he is about...
...Lost Squadron is the first picture manufactured by RKO since young David Selznick became production head of RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe. It will be to the advantage of all concerned if the picture is typical of forthcoming RKO products. Good shot: a group of assistant directors, script writers, prop boys and cameramen waiting to start work, with Von Stroheim standing above them, on a pedestal beside the camera, bawling orders...
...where you get authority that Jewish motion picture heads talk as you state, whether comically or straight? 1 can't imagine persons of the type of David O. Selznick or Jesse Lasky speaking like that: or is it possible that you take figures of speech of Jews for granted...