Word: sheehan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With new financing came new directors. On the Film Board, William Fox himself was a holdover, as were anti-Fox directors Winfield Sheehan and Saul E. Rogers, general counsel. But gone were Fox-Brother Aaron Fox, Fox-cousin Charier Levin. Fox-brother-in-law Jack Leon...
With a new plan and a new management, it remained only for Mr. Harley Clarke to make another of the familiar announcements about the Fox companies getting down to business again, for Mr. Sheehan to see that they...
Last week Samuel Untermyer prepared a bill for about $1,000,000. William Fox resigned from the presidency of Fox Films and Fox Theatres. Winfield Sheehan said: "The war is over and we are back in the amusement business." And Fox Film announced a 1930-31 production schedule of 52 feature pictures on which $22,000,000 would be spent. The new Fox picture program, temporarily eclipsed by corporate wrangles, included Common Clay, Alcatraz (in which Cinema-horse Rex will play the lead), Are You There? (with Beatrice Lillie), Women of All Nations (with Victor McLaglen) and a comedy...
...Winfield Sheehan. Mr. Sheehan emerged as biggest winner. It was reported that he would have been made Fox president except for his steadfast refusal to accept the honor. Said Variety, well-informed theatrical weekly: "Winnie Sheehan . . . has been the backbone of Fox ever since he joined it nearly 20 years ago." Last week Backbone Sheehan emerged as active and unquestioned operating head, was engaged in winding up his eastern affairs preparatory to returning to Hollywood...
...Theatres technically subsidiaries of his comparatively small General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which held the majority of Fox voting stock. Nothing developed to indicate a connection between Mr. Clarke's utility interests (Utilities Power & Light) and the Fox purchase. It was said that Mr. Courtland Smith, a pro-Sheehan Fox executive (Movietone newsreel) was first to interest Mr. Clarke in the deal...